linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits

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Date:	Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:10:53 -0800
From:	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
To:	Ismail Dönmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Security Modules List 
	<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits

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Ismail Dönmez wrote:
| What I meant to ask was what does "per-process securebits" brings as
extra.

It allows you to create a legacy free process tree. For example, a
chroot, or container (which Serge can obviously explain in more detail),
environment in which root has no privilege at all. One in which
privilege comes only from filesystem capabilities.

| FWIW in Pardus 2008 we'll enable Posix file capabilities by default so
people
| could "harden" their setups.

Cheers

Andrew
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