Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] Add access control support to qemu bridge helper

2011-10-24 Thread Corey Bryant
On 10/23/2011 09:10 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 15:07, Corey Bryantcor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: We go to great lengths to restrict ourselves to just cap_net_admin as an OS enforced security mechanism. However, we further restrict what we allow users to do to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] Add access control support to qemu bridge helper

2011-10-24 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 13:44, Corey Bryant cor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 10/23/2011 09:10 AM, Blue Swirl wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 15:07, Corey Bryantcor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com  wrote:  We go to great lengths to restrict ourselves to just cap_net_admin as an OS  enforced

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] Add access control support to qemu bridge helper

2011-10-23 Thread Blue Swirl
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 15:07, Corey Bryant cor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: We go to great lengths to restrict ourselves to just cap_net_admin as an OS enforced security mechanism.  However, we further restrict what we allow users to do to simply adding a tap device to a bridge interface by

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] Add access control support to qemu bridge helper

2011-10-21 Thread Corey Bryant
We go to great lengths to restrict ourselves to just cap_net_admin as an OS enforced security mechanism. However, we further restrict what we allow users to do to simply adding a tap device to a bridge interface by virtue of the fact that this is the only functionality we expose. This is not