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Message-ID: <763414.38514.qm@web36608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, casey@...aufler-ca.com Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, steved@...hat.com, trond.myklebust@....uio.no, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@...hat.com, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] CacheFiles: Permit a process's create SID to be overridden [try #2] --- David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> wrote: > > > This is SELinux specific funtionality and should be done in the > > SELinux code. You should not be adding interfaces that are SELinux > > specific, in this case using secids instead of the LSM blob interfaces. > > Is using secids your only objection? Or are you objecting to the whole > 'act-as' concept? My knee jerk reaction is that that is likely to be SELinux specific behavior as well. I'm going to have to look at the patch more carefully before I can say for sure. I will try to make a constructive proposal once I've had the chance to think on it a little. Sorry about the terse and unhelpful initial reaction. Casey Schaufler casey@...aufler-ca.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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