Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:54:11 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of /dev/caphash |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:28:15PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Granting userid capabilities to another task is a dangerous > privilege. Don't just let file permissions authorize it. > Define CAP_GRANT_ID as a new capability needed to write to > /dev/caphash.
Isn't there some man page that also needs to be updated when you add something like this to the user/kernel api?
thanks,
greg k-h
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