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From: Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:33:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296837186.24742.15.camel@moria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110204160513.GB17396@mail.hallyn.com>

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 16:05 +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serge@hallyn.com):
> > >From 2d7408541dd3a6e19a4265b028233789be6a40f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Serge Hallyn <serge@peq.(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@hallyn.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)

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03 11:39 CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space Gergely Nagy
2011-02-03 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-03 15:32 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 15:53   ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-03 16:51     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 17:07       ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-04  0:49       ` david
2011-02-04  8:03         ` Marc Koschewski
2011-02-04  8:40           ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-04 11:08             ` Alan Cox
2011-02-04 16:03         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-03 15:54   ` Nick Bowler
2011-02-04 16:05   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-04 16:33     ` Gergely Nagy [this message]
2011-02-04 17:15       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-05  7:05         ` david
2011-02-06  1:18           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 21:23             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 21:28               ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 21:34                 ` david
2011-02-09 21:40                   ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 21:47                     ` david
2011-02-09 22:04                       ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-09 22:27                         ` david
2011-02-09 22:37                           ` Gergely Nagy
2011-02-10 14:29                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-02-09 19:50         ` Gergely Nagy

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