Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38

From: Christoph Hellwig (hchat_private)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 10:01:18 PDT

  • Next message: Greg KH: "Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38"

    On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:55:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
    > For cases like the module_* hooks, and the other examples you pointed
    > out, I agree.
    > 
    > For other cases, capable() is just not fine grained enough to actually
    > know what is going on (like CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  In those cases you need an
    > extra hook to determine where in the kernel you are.
    
    Either we make capable fine grained enough (64 or 128bit capability
    vectors, I have some old code for that around and I know SGI used that
    more than a year ago) or we replace the capable in those cases with hooks
    entirely.
    
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