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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce BSD-style user credential [3/3]
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 01:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > struct pcred {
> >        atomic_t	count;
> >        uid_t	uid, euid, suid;
> >        gid_t	gid, egid, sgid;
> >        struct ucred  *cred;
> >        kernel_cap_t ... capabilities ...
> >        struct user_struct *user;
> > };
> 

Needs fsuid too, and space for the security LSM modules to attach
private information. SELinux needs a few more credentials than base
kernels!


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