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    SubjectRe: Security issues with local filesystem caching
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    Ar Iau, 2006-10-26 am 01:32 +0100, ysgrifennodd Al Viro:
    > to. What about access to cache tree by root process that has nothing
    > to do with that daemon? Should it get free access to that stuff, regardless
    > of what policy might say about access to cached files? Or should we at
    > least try to make sure that we have the instances in cache no more permissive
    > than originals on NFS?

    This is already the case however. Root has ptrace, people have /proc
    access (even more than before because the chroot check was broken
    recently), root has CAP_SYS_RAWIO.


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