Re: Upstream first policy

[Alan Cox]

> time.  If pathnames were not fundamentally important we could apply
> a patch like the one below and allow unprivileged users to unshare
> the mount namespace and mount filesystems wherever.  There is nothing
> fundamental about those operations that require root privileges except
> that you are manipulating the pathnames of objects.

And in a purely SELinux enviromnment your patch would work out because
you could use labels to control this stuff.
 

> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> -		return -EPERM;
> -

It does raise the question about whether you can do it if you had a
namespace property of "ignore suidness". I'm not sure thats enough
however.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/