Re: security: introduce file caps

[Chris Friedhoff]

I can confirm this behavior, but only in the interaction of xinit and X.
ping and ntpdate behave with a patched kernel but
CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES=n like expected, even with empty or
wrong capabilities. Tested with 2.6.18.3 kernel

Chris



 On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:41:59 -0600
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Quoting Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx):
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:12:03 +0100
> > Chris Friedhoff <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > xinit respects capabilities (at least i guess), so when the system has
> > > capability-support, the binary /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit neeeds the
> > > capability cap_kill even when no capability extended attribute exists
> > > for this binary.
> > >
> > > setfcaps cap_kill=ep /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
> > >
> > > I documented this here:
> > > http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html#Xorg,%20xinit,%20xfce,%20kde
> > >
> > > and for more:
> > > http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html
> > >
> > 
> > Even when CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES=n?
> 
> No, the patch shouldn't change behavior when
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES=n, though of course I see why it did.  I
> will send a fixed patch tomorrow or this weekend.
> 
> sorry,
> -serge


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