Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Privilege dropping security module | From | Tetsuo Handa <> | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:03:34 +0900 |
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Andy Spencer wrote: > > And what do you propose as an interesting use case for dpriv? > > I think the two most important things about dpriv is that it can be used > by ordinary users and that is can create policies programmatically. > > Being able to use dpriv as a non root user is pretty strait forward. For > example, a user of a multi-user system may want to try some untrusted > code without risking access to the rest of the system: You need to add some quota, or malicious/careless users can consume all kernel memory and crash the system...
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