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Diffstat (limited to 'init')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a075765d5fb..5ad8b775f2a 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -372,6 +372,20 @@ config AUDIT_TREE depends on AUDITSYSCALL select FSNOTIFY +config AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE + bool "Make audit loginuid immutable" + depends on AUDIT + help + The config option toggles if a task setting it's loginuid requires + CAP_SYS_AUDITCONTROL or if that task should require no special permissions + but should instead only allow setting its loginuid if it was never + previously set. On systems which use systemd or a similar central + process to restart login services this should be set to true. On older + systems in which an admin would typically have to directly stop and + start processes this should be set to false. Setting this to true allows + one to drop potentially dangerous capabilites from the login tasks, + but may not be backwards compatible with older init systems. + source "kernel/irq/Kconfig" menu "RCU Subsystem" |