On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] >> >> My point is that all of these need some way to handle configuration >> and inheritance, and I don't think that a bunch of per-task prctls is >> the right way. As just an example, saying that interactive users can >> autoload modules but other users can't, or that certain systemd >> services can, etc, might be nice. Linus already complained that he >> (i.e. user "torvalds" or whatever) should be able to profile the >> kernel but that other uids should not be able to. > > Neat, maybe this could already be achieved with this interface and > systemd-logind, "ModulesAutoloadUsers=andy" in logind.conf where > "andy" is the only logged-in user able to trigger and autoload kernel > modules. However maybe we should not restrict too much other bits or > functionality of the other users, please let me will follow up later > on it. > >> I personally like my implicit_rights idea, and it might be interesting >> to prototype it. > Andy following on the idea of per user settings, I'm curious did you manage to make some advance on how to store the user settings ? the user database format is old and not extensible, there was cgmanager or other libcgroup but for resources, and no simple thing for such restrictions example: "RestrictLinuxModules=user" that will prevent such users from making/loading extra Linux features/modules that are not already available... Thanks! -- tixxdz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
