Re: [PATCH 1/1] Define CAP_SYSLOG

[James Morris]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> Privileged syslog operations currently require CAP_SYS_ADMIN.  Split
> this off into a new CAP_SYSLOG privilege which we can sanely take away
> from a container through the capability bounding set.
> 
> With this patch, an lxc container can be prevented from messing with
> the host's syslog (i.e. dmesg -c).
> 
> Changelog: mar 12 2010: add selinux capability2:cap_syslog perm
> Changelog: nov 22 2010:
> 	. port to new kernel
> 	. add a WARN_ONCE if userspace isn't using CAP_SYSLOG

Applied with kernel version fix to:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next

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James Morris
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