Re: Linux Security Module Interface

2001-04-14 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Crispin Cowan wrote: > > Modules that can be loaded, or not, are the obvious solution, but the > current LKM does not export sufficient hooks to support many security > mechanisms. Have you taken a look at the hooks provided with the patch provided with the Linux Trace Toolkit (http://www.opersy

RE: 2.5 module development mailing list needed? [Fwd: Linux Security Module Interface]

2001-04-11 Thread Grover, Andrew
> > Proper place to do this discussion is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It sounds good in theory. In practice, though, almost all of the > design discussions have been occuring in private e-mail. > For example, I have seen none of the messages discussing > the changes planned for the power manage

Re: 2.5 module development mailing list needed? [Fwd: Linux Security Module Interface]

2001-04-11 Thread Miles Lane
Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:30:36PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> LKML >> >> Comments? > > > Proper place to do this discussion is [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: 2.5 module development mailing list needed? [Fwd: Linux Security Module Interface]

2001-04-11 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:30:36PM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > LKML > > Comments? Proper place to do this discussion is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The amount of traffic w

2.5 module development mailing list needed? [Fwd: Linux Security Module Interface]

2001-04-10 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, Since the 2.5 kernel development will require continued module architecture changes to accomodate power management, pluggable security and PCMCIA in the kernel tree, it would seem to make sense that the various groups that are doing module related architecture changes collaborate and be aware

Linux Security Module Interface

2001-04-10 Thread Crispin Cowan
One of the byproducts of the Linux 2.5 Kernel Summit http://lwn.net/2001/features/KernelSummit/ was the notion of an enhancement of the loadable kernel module interface to facilitate security-oriented kernel modules. The purpose is to ease the tension between folks (such as Immunix and SELinux) w