From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Posix capabilities
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:16:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021020141647.GB6280@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021017122056.GB13573@think.thunk.org>
Hi!
> > Ah, ok... I thought that things work like this: the capabilities support
> > already is in the kernel, and to give an app a particular capability,
> > one has to add a particalar extended attribute to the application
> > executable. So I'm wrong here it seems?
>
> First of all, you can't use a standard user extended attribute, since
> anyone with write access to the file will be allowed to set the
> extended attribute. This isn't good if you're going to be granting
What are extended attributes good for, then?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-26 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-16 15:44 Stefan Schwandter
2002-10-16 16:22 ` Bosko Radivojevic
2002-10-17 3:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-17 4:00 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-10-17 13:22 ` Horst von Brand
2002-10-18 6:38 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-10-17 10:37 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-10-17 11:02 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-17 12:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-17 15:36 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-10-17 17:17 ` Alex Riesen
2002-10-18 16:13 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-10-17 13:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-17 12:05 ` Stefan Schwandter
2002-10-17 12:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-20 14:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-10-27 13:46 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-17 20:43 Neil Schemenauer
2002-10-20 14:18 ` Pavel Machek
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