Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261382AbTHZQHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:07:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261406AbTHZQHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:07:21 -0400 Received: from pub237.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.237]:55293 "EHLO warthog.warthog") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262623AbTHZQHL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:07:11 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1061911851.20946.47.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1061911851.20946.47.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <11490.1061892774@redhat.com> To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: authentication / encryption key retention User-Agent: EMH/1.14.1 SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.4 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Kashiharajing=FE-mae?=) APEL/10.4 Emacs/21.2 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: <12962.1061914023@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 778 Lines: 19 > On Maw, 2003-08-26 at 11:12, David Howells wrote: > > If your subset is but a single pre-existing key (where this includes a > > keyring as a specialisation of a key), then yes; but if the filesystem is > > permitted to select multiple keys from different sources, then no. > > > > I think for the moment, however, we can assume there will be a single key. > > How is the key choice different to say selinux roles ? I'm not sure. After a quick overview of SE Linux, it doesn't seem that it would be able to support this. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/