Messages in this thread | | | From | Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#> | Subject | Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? | Date | Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:55:29 +0100 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It occurs to me that we actually do have the "extended symlink" concept in > UNIX already: the existing "#!" escape for executables is really exactly > that. It's just a structured symlink, except the extension is not a > capability, but rather it's the script to be fed to the executable. > > With a simple extended binfmt_misc.c or binfmt_script.c, we could do a > capability escape (that only removes capabilities, but allows for suid > shells) fairly easily if people really want it. And it would work on any > almost-UNIXy filesystem, including NFS etc.
Look at <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101639590421603>.
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