William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I presumed an ELF note or extended filesystem attributes were already >> in place for this sort of affair. It may be that the model implemented >> is so restrictive that users are forbidden to create new executables, >> in which case using a different model is certainly in order. Otherwise >> the ELF note or attributes need to be implemented.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:37:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Another thing to keep in mind, since we're talking about security > policies in the first place, is that anything like this *MUST* be > "opt-in" on the part of the security policy, because what we're talking > about is circumventing an explicit security policy just based on a > user-provided binary saying, in effect, "don't worry, I know what I'm > doing." > Changing the meaning of an established explicit security policy is not > acceptable. This is what I had in mind with the commentary on the intentions of the policy. Thank you for correcting my hamhanded attempt to describe it. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
