Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:28:06 -0400
From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: sds@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
       selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aviro@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:21:55PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
...
> I'm wondering, why don't just you duplicate all the attributes of the files
> (including xattrs)? That would take care of most if not all the DAC/MAC
> issues, no?

By that I mean issues associated with accessing the cache, not creating the
cache copies.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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