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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [Keyrings] [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:05:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510071004520.31009@excalibur.intercode> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21699.1128675816@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, David Howells wrote:

> James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote:
> 
> > > > > Should I expand the permissions mask to include a setattr?
> > > > 
> > > > Possibly for setperm and chown.
> > > 
> > > For setperm?
> > 
> > It changes an attribute of a key, for which you have DAC checks, therefore 
> > you could assume that we'd also want MAC checks.
> 
> Does it matter that you can take away your own permission to change the
> permissions?

Not that I'm aware of.


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-07 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-05 16:28 [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management David Howells
2005-10-05 16:44 ` [Keyrings] " James Morris
2005-10-05 16:48   ` David Howells
2005-10-05 19:31     ` James Morris
2005-10-05 18:40 ` serue
2005-10-05 21:10 ` [Keyrings] " Chris Wright
2005-10-06  8:03   ` James Morris
2005-10-06 10:54     ` David Howells
2005-10-06 15:04       ` James Morris
2005-10-06 15:18         ` David Howells
2005-10-06 16:02           ` James Morris
2005-10-07  8:50             ` David Howells
2005-10-07 18:36               ` Chris Wright
2005-10-06 17:58       ` Chris Wright
2005-10-07  9:10         ` David Howells
2005-10-07 12:59           ` Stephen Smalley
2005-10-07 18:51           ` Chris Wright
2005-10-06 10:30   ` David Howells
2005-10-06 23:10     ` Chris Wright
2005-10-07  9:57       ` David Howells
2005-10-07 19:36         ` Chris Wright
2005-10-06  8:38 ` James Morris
2005-10-06 11:06   ` David Howells
2005-10-06 14:25     ` James Morris
2005-10-06 15:11       ` David Howells
2005-10-06 16:14         ` James Morris
2005-10-07  9:03           ` David Howells
2005-10-07 14:05             ` James Morris [this message]

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