New audit-perms patch [ Re: Audit perms check on recv ]

Chris Wright chrisw at osdl.org
Tue Jan 4 22:01:03 UTC 2005


* Darrel Goeddel (dgoeddel at trustedcs.com) wrote:
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
<snip>
> > To review, it 
> > 
> >    1.  adds two new capabilities, CAP_AUDIT_READ and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
<snip>

> It would seem that separate CAP_AUDIT_ADMIN/CAP_AUDIT_WRITE capabilities are 
> much more important than having a separate CAP_ADMIN_READ capability.  The 

I already suggested CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE for a good
reason.  These are documented by the Posix draft defining capabilities.
I see no good reason to stray from that.

thanks,
-chris
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