Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:06:30 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
       Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
       linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrace: allow restriction of ptrace scope
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:53:49 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:

> > > SELinux users would not need the other LSM, and stacking is thus not 
> > > required.
> > 
> > But if a user wants to disable ptrace using the SELinux LSM and then
> > also disable sticky-symlinks via the ItsHideous LSM, they're out of luck.
> 
> Thats a nonsensical configuration so we don't care. If you are using
> SELinux you just do it via SELinux. If you are doing it via
> UbuntuHasToBeDifferent then you do it via that.


Well, surely there are people who use something other than Ubuntu
and also care about not using SELinux... eh?


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