linux-kernel - Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:54:25 -0500
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:	Gergely Nagy <algernon@...abit.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space

On 2011-02-03 15:32 +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> At 2.6.39 or 2.6.40, let's add a sysctl which defaults to 0.  When
> 0, refuse if cap_sys_admin, if 1, then allow.

This had better default to 1, since that's the "don't break working
systems" setting.  Users (more likely, distributions) can set it to 0
when they have new enough userspace.

> This will allow users to acknowledge (permanently, if they must, using
> /etc/sysctl.conf) that they've seen the syslog message about
> cap_sys_admin being deprecated for syslog.

Why should the user need to acknowledge anything in order for their
system to not be broken?  What are they supposed to do otherwise?

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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