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Message-ID: <1296837186.24742.15.camel@moria> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:33:06 +0100 From: Gergely Nagy <algernon@...abit.hu> To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 16:05 +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serge@...lyn.com): > > >From 2d7408541dd3a6e19a4265b028233789be6a40f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Serge Hallyn <serge@....(none)> > > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:26:15 -0600 > > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] cap_syslog: don't refuse cap_sys_admin for now > > > > 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 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. > > > > Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com> [...snip...] > James, do you mind taking this patch? Would it be possible to change the commit message to say that 1 would be the default? Just to avoid future confusion... (having it at 0 default later would just postpone the userspace breakage) -- |8] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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