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    SubjectRe: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks
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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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