03-14-2019
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Originally Posted by
as7951
I have informed the same to customer and told that we can't limit the user until he has all the rights.
If you carefully re-read the posts above you will see that Corona688 already adressed that: instead of giving a user all rights (in fact that means he can become the root user, which is allowed to do everything) and then (try to) take away the rights you don't want him to have you should look at it differently from the start:
What does the user have to do and precisely which rights does he need for that?
Once you answered this question (not to me - to yourself) you can start thinking about ways to give the user exactly these rights - and nothing more. Instead of giving out all rights and then taking back some you only give out what is absolutely necessary in the first place.
If you tell us about your (long-term) goals - that is, what is the user account supposed to do - we can help you come up with ways to achieve that. It is perhaps possible to do it but just not in the way you tried.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
cap_rights_limit
CAP_RIGHTS_LIMIT(2) BSD System Calls Manual CAP_RIGHTS_LIMIT(2)
NAME
cap_rights_limit -- limit capability rights
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/capsicum.h>
int
cap_rights_limit(int fd, const cap_rights_t *rights);
DESCRIPTION
When a file descriptor is created by a function such as accept(2), accept4(2), fhopen(2), kqueue(2), mq_open(2), open(2), openat(2),
pdfork(2), pipe(2), shm_open(2), socket(2) or socketpair(2), it is assigned all capability rights. Those rights can be reduced (but never
expanded) by using the cap_rights_limit() system call. Once capability rights are reduced, operations on the file descriptor will be limited
to those permitted by rights.
The rights argument should be prepared using cap_rights_init(3) family of functions.
Capability rights assigned to a file descriptor can be obtained with the cap_rights_get(3) function.
The complete list of the capability rights can be found in the rights(4) manual page.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
EXAMPLES
The following example demonstrates how to limit file descriptor capability rights to allow reading only.
cap_rights_t setrights;
char buf[1];
int fd;
fd = open("/tmp/foo", O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0)
err(1, "open() failed");
if (cap_enter() < 0)
err(1, "cap_enter() failed");
cap_rights_init(&setrights, CAP_READ);
if (cap_rights_limit(fd, &setrights) < 0)
err(1, "cap_rights_limit() failed");
buf[0] = 'X';
if (write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) > 0)
errx(1, "write() succeeded!");
if (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0)
err(1, "read() failed");
ERRORS
cap_rights_limit() succeeds unless:
[EBADF] The fd argument is not a valid active descriptor.
[EINVAL] An invalid right has been requested in rights.
[ENOTCAPABLE] The rights argument contains capability rights not present for the given file descriptor. Capability rights list can only
be reduced, never expanded.
SEE ALSO
accept(2), accept4(2), cap_enter(2), fhopen(2), kqueue(2), mq_open(2), open(2), openat(2), pdfork(2), pipe(2), read(2), shm_open(2),
socket(2), socketpair(2), write(2), cap_rights_get(3), cap_rights_init(3), err(3), capsicum(4), rights(4)
HISTORY
Support for capabilities and capabilities mode was developed as part of the TrustedBSD Project.
AUTHORS
This function was created by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pawel@dawidek.net> under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation.
BSD
March 27, 2014 BSD