Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

Nicholas Wourms (nwourms@netscape.net)
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:05:14 -0500


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.
>

Unfortunately Alexander has spoken again:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103498212701476&w=4

You might want to check out some of the other reviews, I don't think people
gave it very high marks.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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