netdev - Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

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Message-ID: <87mye2yg8a.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:10:45 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

Michael Stone <michael@...top.org> writes:

> For the sake of discussion, I have written up and documented one possible
> implementation of this concept based on the idea of a new rlimit named
> RLIMIT_NETWORK in the following patch series. 
>
> I eagerly await your questions, comments, suggestions, and improvements.

At least for outgoing packets you could already do it using the netfilter
owner match and a suitable uid. I suppose that could be also extended
for incoming packets.

-Andi
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ak@...ux.intel.com
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