Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751471AbWANW6g (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:58:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751476AbWANW6g (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:58:36 -0500 Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.44]:55749 "EHLO smtprelay06.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751471AbWANW6f (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:58:35 -0500 From: Ingo Oeser 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Olaf Dietsche References: <8764om8pzl.fsf@goat.bogus.local> In-Reply-To: <8764om8pzl.fsf@goat.bogus.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart19293470.3LX5P88XNo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601142358.31628.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1224 Lines: 42 --nextPart19293470.3LX5P88XNo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 --nextPart19293470.3LX5P88XNo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDyYIXU56oYWuOrkARAhfdAJ4sUXYYybffLG7qXDraKk1vFUBNMACgz9Rh Ro6tBAeFGCvEArKn8Xfb1Xg= =/ZEZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart19293470.3LX5P88XNo-- - 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/