Re: [RFC] cgroups: implement device whitelist lsm (v2)

[Paul Menage]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > Why aren't the
>  > existing cgroup security semantics sufficient?
>
>  Because the point of this is to provide some restrictions to otherwise
>  privileged users, and cgroups only provides dac-based permissions.
>
>  But that doesn't mean that I'm not doing too much.  I could just add a
>  CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_CONT_OVERRIDE+CAP_SYS_ADMIN check, and not restrict
>  which cgroups a task can move to.  Does that sound good?

Sounds reasonable.

Paul
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