From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@gmail.com>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:50:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150225215022.GE29527@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150202180806.GE24351@ubuntumail>
On Mon 2015-02-02 18:08:06, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com):
> > I'm game to participate in such an effort. The POSIX scheme
> > is workable, but given that it's 20 years old and hasn't
> > developed real traction it's hard to call it successful.
>
> Over the years we've several times discussed possible reasons for this
> and how to help. I personally think it's two things: 1. lack of
> toolchain and fs support. The fact that we cannot to this day enable
> ping using capabilities by default because of cpio, tar and non-xattr
> filesystems is disheartening. 2. It's hard for users and
Capabilities in the elf notes actually solve 1.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-25 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-02 16:21 [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities Christoph Lameter
2015-02-02 17:12 ` Serge Hallyn
2015-02-02 17:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-02 18:09 ` Serge Hallyn
2015-02-03 15:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 15:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 15:55 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-03 17:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 17:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-04 15:15 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2015-02-04 15:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-04 15:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-04 16:12 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2015-02-04 16:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-04 16:54 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2015-02-04 17:34 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-04 18:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-04 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-04 16:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-05 0:34 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-05 15:23 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-25 21:50 ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-25 23:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-26 12:27 ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-27 20:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-27 20:48 ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-27 20:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-27 22:47 ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-02 17:54 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-02 18:08 ` Serge Hallyn
2015-02-02 18:47 ` Mimi Zohar
2015-02-02 19:05 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-02-02 20:35 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-03 16:04 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-02 19:00 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-05 0:20 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-02 20:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-02 20:54 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-03 15:51 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-03 16:37 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-03 17:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-03 17:50 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-03 19:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 20:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-03 23:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 23:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-02-04 2:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-04 6:05 ` Markku Savela
2015-02-04 13:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-04 13:41 ` Markku Savela
2015-02-04 14:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-02-03 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 15:40 ` Casey Schaufler
2015-02-03 15:46 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-03 17:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-02-03 17:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-02-25 21:50 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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