[PATCH] enable /proc/$$/loginuid

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Fri Jan 14 18:01:29 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:06, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Changelog:
>   1/14/2005: Added several checks for error values which were missing.
>   1/07/2005: First version.
> 
> Is this ready for lkml?

Why require CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to read the loginuid?  Programs like
newrole would like to have a more reliable user identity available than
the normal uid; we were having them extract the SELinux user identity
from the security context, but in Fedora, that is typically just user_u
due to the lack of integration of user management with policy.

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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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