[rsbac] REG module

[Amon Ott]

On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:54, Tommy wrote:
> I'm writing a module using the reg facilities, but I'm finding a lot of 

That's interesting. What kind of module?

> difficulties in changing the uid of the process using the syscall 
registered 
> by the module. I use current->uid = the_other_uid, but the uid doesn't 
change 
> and I don't get any other RSBAC module complaining (well, it would be very 
> difficult, as I'm just changing an integer value...). I would also like to 
> know how I could do such change whitout bypassing the other modules. Should 
I 
> use rsbac_adf_request() for a simple check before changing the uid or is 
> there another way?

The official way is to use rsbac_adf_request(). If you want to bypass a 
repeated REG module check, use rsbac_adf_request_int with ignore_module=REG. 
However, this will bypass ALL registered REG modules (see adf_main.c for 
details).
 
> P.S.: As you've probably already understood I'm a newbie to both rsbac and 
> kernel programming :)

We all have to start some day. Go ahead!

Amon.
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