Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Andrew Morgan <morgan@transmeta.com>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> 
> > Until you have a file system that supports extended attributes
> > so as to store capability bits
> 
> I wonder if there's any development going on on this front ...
> 
> AFAIK extended attributes _are_ planned for Linux 2.5, so it
> would be nice if there was code to store capabilities in them.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2-fcap/

Cheers

Andrew

> 
> (then again, even if the extended attributes won't work out, we
> should still use the capabilities, if even through a wrapper
> script or a layering filesystem)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rik
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