Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:13:53 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: CAP_SYSLOG, 2.6.38 and user space |
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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
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