Re: Identifiers

[wes <wgriffin@glue.umd.edu>]

Work on something very similar to this is already in progess. It's the
Linux-Privs project. The website I know of is:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/

Today, Hugo Van den Berg wrote:

:Maybe something to think about if it's useful. VMS used to have the
:concept of identifiers. Identifiers could be associated with rights on the
:system, both rights to files and kernel rights. Identifiers could be given
:to users at login and to installed images. I don't think we should bring
:installed images back, because Linux has better mechanisms for sharing
:code, but we could attach them to executables, kind of like SGID, but with
:the ability to attach more than one, and you would not just set the
:identifier but also the associated rights.

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