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From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
To: "Ismail Dönmez" <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Security Modules List 
	<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:10:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A6661D.7020305@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802040254.50444.ismail@pardus.org.tr>

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Ismail Dönmez wrote:
| What I meant to ask was what does "per-process securebits" brings as
extra.

It allows you to create a legacy free process tree. For example, a
chroot, or container (which Serge can obviously explain in more detail),
environment in which root has no privilege at all. One in which
privilege comes only from filesystem capabilities.

| FWIW in Pardus 2008 we'll enable Posix file capabilities by default so
people
| could "harden" their setups.

Cheers

Andrew
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01  8:11 [PATCH] per-process securebits Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-01  8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01  9:07   ` James Morris
2008-02-04 18:17     ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-04 22:00       ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03  6:01   ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-03  6:18     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-03  6:25       ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-04  0:49         ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-04  0:54           ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-04  1:10             ` Andrew G. Morgan [this message]
2008-02-04 16:45               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-02-05  1:15                 ` Ismail Dönmez
2008-02-01 20:15 ` serge
2008-02-03  6:11   ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-02-05 18:46 ` Serge E. Hallyn

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