Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:14:53 +0100 |
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On Friday 01 November 2002 19:32, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 01:49, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I'm down to 8 undecided features: 6 removed and one I missed earlier. > > How about Olaf Dietsche's filesystem capabilities support? It has been > posted a couple times to LK, yesterday even. > > > We've had capabilities for ages (2.2?) but no filesystem support. > > OpenBSD is recently bragging about no longer having any SUID root > binaries on the system. > > With FS capabilities we (Linux) can have the same situation. Security > is a hot topic, and anything the kernel can do make security > better/easier seems worthy of consideration.
We have little experience with full blown capability enabled systems. Rushing things doesn't seem like a good idea. IMO we should wait until vendors have integrated FS caps before adding this to the standard kernel.
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