Re: [RFC][PATCH] loginuid through procfs (+ a question)
Sounds good.
On this topic, Stephen, were you going to send the loginuid inheritence
patch to lkml?
I guess I will rewrite the netlink patch quickly without
netlink_get_msgtype, send it back here today, and lacking seriously
negative feedback, send it to lkml tomorrow.
thanks,
-serge
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:00 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:00, Steve Grubb wrote:
> I see places in the kernel setting -1 for uid on init, though. For example,
> look at security/keys/keyctl.c
Ah, good point. And even the functions in kernel/sys.c for setting uids
use (uid_t)-1 as a magic value to indicate that no change is desired.
Hence, possibly (uid_t)-1 is safe to use for the unset loginuid.
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Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com>