From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.15: Filesystem capabilities 0.16
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:58:24 +0100
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On Saturday 14 January 2006 22:21, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> This patch implements filesystem capabilities. It allows to run
> privileged executables without the need for suid root.

Why not implement this via xattr framework and the "system."=20
namespace there? I would suggest "system.posix_capabilties" for this.

That way you can reduce your infrastructure, take advantage
of caching features, have user space tools for viewing and changing=20
this and resize2fs works for it now or soon.

What do you think?


Regards

Ingo Oeser


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