Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932136AbWA3Iwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:52:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932137AbWA3Iwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:52:34 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:52442 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932136AbWA3Iwd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:52:33 -0500 Subject: Re: security capabilities on filesystems From: Arjan van de Ven To: Lukasz Stelmach Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43DD1FB7.9050509@poczta.fm> References: <43DD1FB7.9050509@poczta.fm> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:52:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1138611152.2977.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 16 On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:04 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: > Greetings. > > I've poke around for some information but all I got (was this lousy t-shirt) > that there is no support for capablities stored on a filesystem. However, I'd > like to ask if there are any chances to see this feature soon. this has been asked many many times, and the answer seems to always have been "no because that's not secure"; I suggest google as a way to find out more details... - 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/