Re: [PATCH] Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:11:12 -0500
Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > The initialization to zero is implicit, no need to write it out.
> > 
> 
> I'll resend after the first round of comments.
> 
> > Also, it would also be useful to have a
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_RESTRICT_DMESG=y option introduced by your patch as
> > well, which flag allows a distro or user to disable unprivileged
> > syslog reading via the kernel config.
> 
> Are you suggesting having the existence of the sysctl depend on
> CONFIG_SECURITY_RESTRICT_DMESG, or having a choice between a sysctl
> (when config is disabled) and having restrictions always on (when
> config is enabled)?

and/or have the sysctl default value depend on the config option


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