libcap: introduce CAP_SYSLOG

PATCH New Sergey Senozhatsky 1 participant 1 message Jan 13, 2011

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Sergey Senozhatsky

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2011-01-13 16:23 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 libcap: introduce CAP_SYSLOG

Since commit 38ef4c2e437d11b5922723504b62824e96761459 syslog operations require CAP_SYSLOG capability (intoriduced by commit ce6ada35bdf710d16582cc4869c26722547e6f11), not CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Patch introduces CAP_SYSLOG capability.

Signed-off-by Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>

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 libcap/include/linux/capability.h |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

libcap/include/linux/capability.h +6 -1

index 39e5ff5..4924f2a 100644
@@ -355,7 +355,12 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
 
 #define CAP_MAC_ADMIN        33
 
-#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_MAC_ADMIN
+
+/* Privileged syslog operations currently require CAP_SYSLOG.
+   CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not acceptable anymore. */
+#define CAP_SYSLOG           34
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_SYSLOG
 
 #define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)