Re: New LSM security operation

2007-07-12 Thread Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
An application that is careful not to destroy existing information would not be able to prevent itself from doing so if the file is hidden. Its pretty important to avoid defeating programs that are trying to behave properly. It's true what you are saying... But I think the best way to know if

Re: New LSM security operation

2007-07-12 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Zeus Gómez Marmolejo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi people, > > I've looked around on how to hide inodes in a Linux filesystem but > surprisingly the kernel lacks this functionality. It would be desirable > for me to add an ACL to a file in order not to be seen in the directory > contents bu

Re: New LSM security operation

2007-07-11 Thread Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
Lets run a thought experiment on this notion... Let's say that the file you want to hide is "/etc/dangerous". One of your fellows decides to create a file for other purposes and decides to call it "/etc/dangerous", having looked in /etc and seeing no file with that name. What should happen when