Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:23:23 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:09 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > --- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > ... A file name is a pretty > > meaningless object in Unixspace ... > > Stephen is right that the inode is the object. > Crispin is right that people care about path names. > > The linux-audit folks have been hashing this > about good and hard. It is true that both the > pathname /etc/shadow and the inode it represents > are interesting from various secuirty viewpoints. > If you insist on either being the definitive > security referent you will be wrong about half > the time.
just that LSM is inode based ;)
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