Messages in this thread | | | From | Ismail Dönmez <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 02:54:50 +0200 |
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At Monday 04 February 2008 around 02:49:29 Andrew G. Morgan wrote: > Another way to put this is that there needs to be some application code > and documentation available to guide the way... Adding such things to > the example programs in libcap2 helped me find the 24-rc2 CAP_SETPCAP > bug and until I've gone through the task of testing all the bits > together, I won't believe the kernel support is anything other than > 'experimental'. > > Other folk are actively advocating and exploring this model. For > example, Chris Friedhoff has a page here that describes some first > steps for using filesystem capabilities: > > ~ http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html
I already know and enjoy File system base capabilities thanks to Chris' website and Serge's developerWorks article.
What I meant to ask was what does "per-process securebits" brings as extra. FWIW in Pardus 2008 we'll enable Posix file capabilities by default so people could "harden" their setups.
Regards, ismail
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