On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:48 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting [email protected] ([email protected]):
> > +/*
> > + * There are not enough CAP bits available to make this
> > + * real, so Casey borrowed the capability that looks to
> > + * him like it has the best balance of similarity amd
> > + * low use.
> > + */
> > +#define CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE
>
> Hey Casey,
>
> note that 64-bit capabilities are now in -mm, so you could grab your own
> capability.
Which brings up an interesting question - what to do with
security-module-specific capabilities? CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE is specific to
Smack - other MAC modules like SELinux won't honor it. Maybe it should
be CAP_SMACK_OVERRIDE.
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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