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Duncan wrote: |
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> Kyle Lutze posted <444C0482.4090408@×××××××××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:49:38 -0700: |
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>> re-emerging jack-audio-connection-kit with "-caps" did the trick, go |
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>> figure. everything else was perfect |
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>> on a side note, if capabilities was replaced by realtime and lsm, why is |
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>> capabilities still in the 2.6 kernel? |
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> I'm not familiar with the 2.4 capacities module and how it worked, so |
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> can't answer that aspect of the question. However, in kernel 2.6, there's |
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> the Linux Security Module (LSM) framework. It's designed to expose the |
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> necessary kernel hooks for any of several different security module |
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> approaches in a pluggable way, so any of several modules can be enabled to |
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> take advantage of it. |
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> In 2.6, the capacities module is implemented using LSM, designed to plug |
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> into LSM and to provide the "traditional" Linux security implementation. |
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> Apparently, realtime-lsm is a second available plugin. IIRC there's at |
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> least a third as well, the BSD audit security framework, and I believe I |
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> read that SELinux has a module too, tho for all I know it uses the BSD |
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> audit module, perhaps with a few modifications, not its own separate |
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> module. |
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> It shouldn't therefore be entirely surprising that realtime-lsm and |
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> capacities conflict, as they are probably fighting for control of the same |
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> thing. Is it possible to use two different LSMs together in any case? I |
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> don't know, but it's evident that there's a conflict here. It appears you |
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> can use one or the other but not both at the same time. You plug in one, |
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> and it takes at least part of the interface the other one would plug |
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> into, so you can't plug in the other. |
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ahh the downfall of linux, people can't decide on one thing, so they |
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make two seperate ones, programs you use at the same time require both, |
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you get the shaft. Argg!!! |
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Kyle |
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