Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:43:21 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1) |
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>> In the meantime, so long as you're adding some new capabilities, how >> about also splitting up a few like CAP_SYS_ADMIN? Have you looked into >> it and decided none are really separable, i.e. any subset leads to the >> ability to get any other subset? > >I agree that splitting CAP_SYS_ADMIN might be worth while, but it >really looks like opening a worm can, so I didn't feel up to the >challenge there. It might be a good idea to reserve some bits for >that possibility, however - I'm not sure how best to proceed.
Split it into read and write options, for a start. This is important in a sub-"root"-user environment as is currently created with my MultiAdm LSM, which, due to the broad spectrum CAP_SYS_ADMIN addresses, must give SYS_ADMIN to the subadmin (to be able to read restricted objects) and restrict it afterwards in all the LSM hooks (to not write to restricted objects).
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/1/105 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/1/110 <- important
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