Re: [PATCH] Define CAP_SYSLOG

[Michael Kerrisk]

> There is one downside to this patch:  If some site or distro currently
> has syslogd/whatever running as a non-root user with cap_sys_admin+pe,
> then it will need to be changed to run with cap_syslog+pe.  I don't
> know if there are such sites, or if that concern means we should take
> a different approach to introducing this change, or simply refuse this
> change.

*If* this is a problem, would the way to address it not be to permit
syslog if the caller has *either* CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYSLOG? (The
only weakness I see in this idea is that it fails to lighten the
hugely overlaoded CAP_SYS_ADMIN.)

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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