Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3] | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:13:04 +0200 |
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 02:51, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 01:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > struct pcred { > > > atomic_t count; > > > uid_t uid, euid, suid; > > > gid_t gid, egid, sgid; > > > struct ucred *cred; > > > kernel_cap_t ... capabilities ... > > > struct user_struct *user; > > > }; > > > > Needs fsuid too, and space for the security LSM modules to attach > private information. SELinux needs a few more credentials than base > kernels!
Why worry about what SELinux needs, since it is proprietary, and may not even be legal to distribute? Perhaps there is some other set of security plugins that actually matter.
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