Messages in this thread | | | From | Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#> | Subject | Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? | Date | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 23:07:30 +0100 |
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Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com> writes:
> 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.
Judging from the silence, I guess my mails take the direct route from inbox to /dev/null ;-). But never mind, since the patch is very small, it's easy for people to add fs capabilities themselves, if they're interested.
> We've had capabilities for ages (2.2?) but no filesystem support.
#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION 0x19980330 says, it's at least four and a half years old.
> 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.
I think, it's not time for bragging yet, until fs capabilities get quite a bit more testing.
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