Re: [PATCH 00/12] One more attempt at useful kernel lockdown

H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-09T19:56:44Z

>>
>> I.e. capabilities ;)
>
> Circles. All I see here are circles.
>
> Having lived an entire release with a capabilities based mechanism for
> this in Fedora, please no.
>
> And if you are talking about non-POSIX capabilities as you mentioned
> earlier, that seems to be no different than having securelevel being a
> bitmask of, well, levels. I don't have much opinion on securelevel
> being a big hammer or a bitmask of finer grained things, but I do
> think it's a more manageable way forward. Calling the implementation
> "capabilities" seems to just be unnecessarily confusing.
>

This is the term "capability" in the general sense, not the POSIX
implementation thereof.

-hpa