Since we already allow defining the mode of AF_UNIX sockets and FIFO, it
makes sense to also allow specific user/group ownership of the socket
file for restricting access.
This adds SMACK label configuration options to socket units.
SMACK labels should be applied to most objects on disk well before
execution time, but two items remain that are generated dynamically
at run time that require SMACK labels to be set in order to enforce
MAC on all objects.
Files on disk can be labelled using package management.
For device nodes, simple udev rules are sufficient to add SMACK labels
at boot/insertion time.
Sockets can be created at run time and systemd does just that for
several services. In order to protect FIFO's and UNIX domain sockets,
we must instruct systemd to apply SMACK labels at runtime.
This patch adds the following options:
Smack - applicable to FIFO's.
SmackIpIn/SmackIpOut - applicable to sockets.
No external dependencies are required to support SMACK, as setting
the labels is done using fsetxattr(). The labels can be set on a
kernel that does not have SMACK enabled either, so there is no need
to #ifdef any of this code out.
For more information about SMACK, please see Documentation/Smack.txt
in the kernel source code.
v3 of this patch changes the config options to be CamelCased.
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.
Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>
I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.
This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.
The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
Hi,
attached path extends socket configurables with another
knob - TCP Congestion Avoidance selection. Linux implements
handful of those, useful in various situations. For example,
TCP Low Priority may be used by FTP service to gracefully
yield bandwidth for more important TCP/IP streams.
Until recently TCP_CONGESTION was Linux-specific, recently
FreeBSD 8 and OpenSolaris gained compatible support.
Dave Reisner