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

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Date:	Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:03:46 +0000
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	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

Quoting david@...g.hm (david@...g.hm):
> I can see what you would want to allow for a syslog daemon to have
> CAP_SYSLOG without needing to have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but why do you see
> it as important to deny the ability if someone has CAP_SYS_ADMIN?

Good point, most of its use is in going the other way.

-serge
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