Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:17:35 -0800 (PST) | From | Santos Halpar <> | Subject | [OFFTOPIC] Filesystem support for capabilities |
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:31:14 +0100 (CET), MOLNAR Ingo > <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> said: [SNIP] >> together with all the other upcoming 2.3 features (ACLs, trees, >> compression, etc.) it will be significantly different from >> 'classic' ext2fs
Probably off-topic for linux-raid, so I'm moving it over to linux-kernel,(is there an ext2 mailing list?) but I've seen Stephen talking about ACLs a few times recently -- what's the status of getting ext2 support for capabilities in the early 2.3.x series? Is this going to be done in the ACL patches[1], or is there plan to do it at a higher level (VFS)? I would dearly love to see filesystem support for capabilities and am willing to put some effort in to doing it -- my C skills are quite good, but kernel hacking is still a new area. If anyone has ideas for what abstraction layer this should go at I'm willing to take a stab at doing it -- all hints will be gratefully accepted. Presumably if it's not done in ACLs then there will have to be some sort of representation for forced capability bits added elsewhere.
Background: I'm developing some security daemons including key-management facilities. I don't like making a daemon setuid just so it can mlock private keys in memory. (Aside: is there a standard place to upload US-developed crypto so I can distribute it at least in the States without violating EAR/ITAR?)
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G. Sumner Hayes sjhalpar@yahoo.com <-- Address good until 31 April 1999
[1] http://aerobee.informatik.uni-bremen.de/acl_eng.html _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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