Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:25:49 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Extended Attributes for Security Modules against 2.5.68 |
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* Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) wrote: > > The other question is why do you name them system.security? The name > sounds a bit too generic to me. ACLs are certainly a security feature > and have different ATTRS, similar for the Posix capability and MAC > support in XFS. As selinux is the flask implementation for Linux > what about system.flask_label? (or system.selinux_label?)
It's really a namespace issue for user apps trying to deal with xattrs. Being able to display the xattrs associated with a file in sane way, like getxattr(path, "system.security", ...). Otherwise something like listxattr() then gettxttr(... "system.security.[blah]" ...). Total freeform naming is a headache for userspace to deal with. Esp. since we don't want to teach all userland tools about each individual module/policy.
There were a couple proposals to use common root like "system.security." (or the trusted namespace which was discussed in earlier threads).
Would you still prefer module specific naming?
thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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