Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754887AbWKWIZh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:25:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755011AbWKWIZh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:25:37 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:64231 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754887AbWKWIZg (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:25:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:22:07 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Smalley , James Morris , Chris Wright , KaiGai Kohei , Chris Friedhoff , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: security: introduce file caps Message-Id: <20061123002207.5e18bade.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061123001458.fe73f64a.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20061114030655.GB31893@sergelap> <20061123001458.fe73f64a.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 842 Lines: 22 On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:14:58 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:06:55 -0600 > "Serge E. Hallyn" wrote: > > > Implement file posix capabilities. This allows programs to be given > > a subset of root's powers regardless of who runs them, without > > having to use setuid and giving the binary all of root's powers. > > With this patch applied, my X server fails to exit when I do the normal > logout thing from the KDE menus. After a manual kill of the X server I see on the VT: xinit: Operation not permitted (errno 1): Can't kill X server - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/