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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3]
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:13:04 +0200
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Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
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	Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 02:51, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 01:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > struct pcred {
> > >        atomic_t	count;
> > >        uid_t	uid, euid, suid;
> > >        gid_t	gid, egid, sgid;
> > >        struct ucred  *cred;
> > >        kernel_cap_t ... capabilities ...
> > >        struct user_struct *user;
> > > };
> > 
> 
> Needs fsuid too, and space for the security LSM modules to attach
> private information. SELinux needs a few more credentials than base
> kernels!

Why worry about what SELinux needs, since it is proprietary, and may
not even be legal to distribute?  Perhaps there is some other set of
security plugins that actually matter.

-- 
Daniel