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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] keys & keyring management update patch
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:07:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22380.1092838053@redhat.com> (raw)


I've made available a patch that makes some alterations to my key management
stuff, mainly to support keyfs. The patch can be downloaded from:

    http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keys-268rc4mm1.diff.bz2
    Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

To summarise the changes in this patch:

 (*) There are now five permissions instead of three, which makes things
     easier. Hopefully it also means that people will stop thinking keys have
     UNIX access permissions, which they do not.

 (*) The key "chmod" operation is now "setperm".

 (*) fsuid/fsgid are now used instead of euid/egid when using permissions.

 (*) Some stuff has been moved from the internal header file into
     include/linux/key-ui.h to make it available to keyfs.

 (*) /proc/keys is now disabled by default. It pretends keys don't exist
     unless you have at least one permission on them.

David

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