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SubjectRe: [RFC] Privilege dropping security module
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Andy Spencer wrote:
> > And what do you propose as an interesting use case for dpriv?
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> 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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