Accessing Inodes??

Accessing Inodes??

[Harish K Harshan]

I am doing a project on implementing mandatory access control in the linux
kernel. I would like to know how to acces or modify the inodes of files
and directories on a hard disk. Please help me.

Thanks in Advance,
Harish.


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Re: Accessing Inodes??

[Emmanuel Fleury]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:11, Harish K Harshan wrote:
> I am doing a project on implementing mandatory access control in the linux
> kernel. I would like to know how to acces or modify the inodes of files
> and directories on a hard disk. Please help me.

You should use the LSM hooks for this.

See: 
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/module/t1.html
http://umbrella.sourceforge.net/
...
And a lot of others
...

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