[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-11-03 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mike Gerdts wrote: On 10/30/06, Darren J Moffat Darren.Moffat at sun.com wrote: James Carlson wrote: Why, other than the returning an error we already have 5 such privileges in the basic set. Now in each of those cases (proc_info, proc_session, proc_fork, proc_exec, file_link_any) there is a

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-11-03 Thread casper....@sun.com
Assuming we do steps 1 and 2 above, do we get into any problems with POSIX compliance if the default basic privilege set does not include PRIV_SYS_SYNC? There is no such thing as a default basic set. There's a basic set and there's the default set users get when they login; they are

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 03 Nov 2006 at 10:34AM, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: Assuming we do steps 1 and 2 above, do we get into any problems with POSIX compliance if the default basic privilege set does not include PRIV_SYS_SYNC? There is no such thing as a default basic set. There's a basic set and

[request-sponsor] sponsor request for bug 6363303

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Mick
John, if you've done the contributor agreement, I can certainly help you with this putback. Bonnie Corwin wrote: Hi John, I assume you mean 6363303. I'll add this to the table. You might want to go ahead and submit a contributor agreement. Then you'll be all set when someone picks