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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:38:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acrqwpam.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050103003237.GA89490@muc.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "3 Jan 2005 01:32:37 +0100, Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:32:37 +0100")

* Andi Kleen:

>> think the dogma of "no policy in the kernel" is a good one to follow
>> here:  it ignores the problem and creates new ones.
>
> The kernel just assumes that root knows what he/she/it is doing.

Is there any documentation that says that you must load security
modules immediately?  If there isn't, this assumption is a bit
far-fetched.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-03 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-02 20:00 [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-02 20:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-02 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-02 20:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-02 20:47     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-02 22:36       ` David Meybohm
2005-01-02 23:30         ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-03  0:21           ` David Meybohm
2005-01-03  0:32             ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-03 14:38               ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-01-03 15:52               ` Alan Cox
2005-01-04 20:24 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-04 21:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-04 21:08     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-04 21:31       ` Chris Wright
2005-01-04 21:09     ` Lee Revell

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