Re: [PATCH 0/4] MultiAdmin LSM

[James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>]

This module implements two distinct ideas:

(1) Multiple superusers with distinct UIDs.

More than one root on a system I think is generally regarded as a bad 
idea.  I'm not sure why you'd use a scheme like this instead of, say, sudo 
or custom setuid helpers for specific tasks -- whatever the case, I think 
such issues can be addressed entirely in userspace.


(2) Partially decomposing the superuser and protecting some users from 
    some decomposed superusers, and decomposing CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

This is a special-case security policy hard-coded into the kernel.  It 
lacks a clear design rationale, and does not seem amenable to analysis, as 
its access control coverage is incomplete.

As already suggested, it may be worth looking at just decomposing 
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, although it's not clear how do to this correctly for the 
general case.


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
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