Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

Paul Davis
2005-01-07T16:24:24Z

>It's quite probable that the current system of capabilities is not well
>suited for this, but I think that although it's tempting to work around it
>by introducing a new security module, in the long term it's much better
>to extend and/or fix the capabilities -- I don't see any fundamental reason
>for capabilities being unusable for this goal, it's much more likely to be
>just minor details in the implementation.

capabilities work - we use them in 2.4 where a helper suid application
gets the ball rolling, and then its child grants capabilities to new
clients.

the problem we have with capabilities is that capabilities are not
enabled by default in the vanilla kernel, and there seems to be
considerable advice suggesting that they should not be enabled.

--p