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SubjectRe: capabilitiescompute_cred
Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:21, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>>I agree in principle, but it would still be nice to have a simple way to
>>have useful capabilities without setting up a MAC system. I don't see a
>>capabilities fix adding any significant amount of code; it just takes
>>some effort to get it right.
>
>
> I'm not opposed to making the existing capability logic more useable; I
> just think that capabilities will ultimately be superseded by TE.
>
>
>>You can find my attempts to get it right in the
>>linux-kernel archives, and I'll probably try to get something into 2.7
>>when it forks. With or without MAC, having a functioning capability
>>system wouldn't hurt security.
>
>
> Does revising the capability logic need to wait on 2.7? Have you
> changed the logic significantly since the last patch you posted to lkml?
>

I don't _think_ it's changed, but I'll double-check that in a few days
(I'm out of town). I'll also rediff my patch. Should it be a config
option?

Anyway, I have no strong objection to seeing a change in 2.6 -- there's
just some risk that it could break something that depends on the current
(broken, undocumented) behavior.

Andrew: would you be willing to put a capabilities fix into -mm?

--Andy
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