linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE

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Message-Id: <200809250336.27647.agruen@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:36:27 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	James Morris <jmorris@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES

On Thursday, 25 September 2008 3:02:33 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Chris Wright (chrisw@...s-sol.org):
> > What is being done to enable userspace in distros to make those 570
> > bytes generally useful?
>
> Fedora 9 and ubuntu intrepid already have full capabilities support and
> modern libcap.  Sles is set to ship with a modern libcap, and according
> to what Andreas is saying, if we can provide them with the no_file_caps
> boot option then suse is willing to have a kernel with capabilities
> turned on.

Yes.

> I think gentoo still comes with libcap-1.  Need to look into 
> changing that.
>
> I suppose the next baby-step will be to do get rid of setuid on little
> things like ping.

Real file capability support in RPM seems important to me; hacking this 
into %post scripts is not a reasonable approach.

Thanks,
Andreas
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