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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:50:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:11:21PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I do not think having md5 sum of /bin/ls helps so much -- what if I
> moify ld.so, instead?

the checksum is intended to mimic the exisiting priveledge revocatin on
altering. You could of course all all depenendn modules as checksums too,
but this would be more our current suid system supports.

Greetings
Bernd
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