Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] modules:capabilities: add a per-task modules autoload restriction

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:07:49PM +0200, Djalal Harouni wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> >>
> >> My point is that all of these need some way to handle configuration
> >> and inheritance, and I don't think that a bunch of per-task prctls is
> >> the right way.  As just an example, saying that interactive users can
> >> autoload modules but other users can't, or that certain systemd
> >> services can, etc, might be nice.  Linus already complained that he
> >> (i.e. user "torvalds" or whatever) should be able to profile the
> >> kernel but that other uids should not be able to.
> >
> > Neat, maybe this could already be achieved with this interface and
> > systemd-logind,  "ModulesAutoloadUsers=andy" in logind.conf where
> > "andy" is the only logged-in user able to trigger and autoload kernel
> > modules. However maybe we should not restrict too much other bits or
> > functionality of the other users, please let me will follow up later
> > on it.
> >
> >> I personally like my implicit_rights idea, and it might be interesting
> >> to prototype it.
> >
> 
> Andy following on the idea of per user settings, I'm curious did you
> manage to make some advance on how to store the user settings ? the
> user database format is old and not extensible, there was cgmanager or

(v2 is under very very early consideration, would love to stay in the loop
as this is considered)

> other libcgroup but for resources, and no simple thing for such
> restrictions example: "RestrictLinuxModules=user" that will prevent
> such users from making/loading extra Linux features/modules that are
> not already available...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> tixxdz