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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:13:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203151353.25f69343@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296733177.14846.26.camel@moria>

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:39:37 +0100
Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Back in november, a patch was merged into the kernel (in  commit
> ce6ada35bdf710d16582cc4869c26722547e6f11), that splits CAP_SYSLOG out of
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
> 
> Sadly, this has an unwelcomed consequence, that any userspace syslogd
> that formerly used CAP_SYS_ADMIN will stop working, unless upgraded, or
> otherwise adapted to the change.

Then the patch should probably be reverted as it's breaking an existing
userspace API (or the kernel should accept either SYSLOG || ADMIN in
those cases that check is made so that the old right covers it as well as
the split out one)

Alan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 15:11 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 [this message]
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
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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