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From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:05:14 -0500
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Dax Kelson wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 01:49, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> I'm down to 8 undecided features: 6 removed and one I missed earlier.
> 
> How about Olaf Dietsche's filesystem capabilities support? It has been
> posted a couple times to LK, yesterday even.
> 
> 
> We've had capabilities for ages (2.2?) but no filesystem support.
> 
> OpenBSD is recently bragging about no longer having any SUID root
> binaries on the system.
> 
> With FS capabilities we (Linux) can have the same situation.  Security
> is a hot topic, and anything the kernel can do make security
> better/easier seems worthy of consideration.
> 

Unfortunately Alexander has spoken again:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103498212701476&w=4

You might want to check out some of the other reviews, I don't think people 
gave it very high marks.

Cheers,
Nicholas


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