Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add LSM sysctl hook to 2.5.59

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 19:43:20 EST


On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:39:39AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > What's the reason you can't just live with DAC for sysctls?
>
> What exactly do you mean by "live with DAC" in this context? If you mean
> "allow UID==0 processes to do whatever they like" then it's not going to work
> for any sort of chroot setup.

This means check the unix file permissions / ACLs only overriden by
CAP_FOWNER processes.

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