Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Feb 1999 15:20:56 -0600 (CST) | From | Troy Benjegerdes <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filesystem support for capabilities |
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:17:35 -0800 (PST), Santos Halpar > <sjhalpar@yahoo.com> said: > > > 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)? > > There needs to be VFS support, but the fact is that different existing > filesystems already have different security mechanisms (think about > AFS+kerberos, for example), so we need to leave as much of the policy > as possible to the individual filesystems. > Or possibly far more usefull for most users.. Coda+kerberos5, which I am seriously looking at right now. Support for the Coda ACL's in the kernel would be exceedingly great, IMHO. Maybe even kerberos5 principals could be supported, as in the joeuser@KRB.REALM has normal privledges, and the joeuser/admin@KRB.REALM has adminstrative root-like power. Is this reasonable/possible, or am I only dreaming?
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