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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-10 17:53:55 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-10 17:53:55 -0800
commitee24aebffb75a7f940cf52c8cf6910947b3130c0 (patch)
treeed1eafa8b1a30b078c9fa680aafbb49632921a0d /security
parent67d019528e5c2693145217cf18a507689980d2a4 (diff)
cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now
In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and then reject the operation). Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog. (This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up and making the code more readable) Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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