RE: RSBAC suggestions / Problems

From: Amon Ott <ao@rsbac.org>
Subject: RE: RSBAC suggestions / Problems
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:05:00 +0200

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On Mit, 11 Jul 2001 Kaladis wrote:
> > You and all others: Do you think, there should be a global RSBAC config
> switch
> > 'Disable Linux filesystem access control', which disables all Linux
> filesystem
> > access control in vfs_permission()?
> 
> I'm not very fond of the idea to disable that globally. Instead of having it
> globally I would have it inheritant to a chosen directory or so. Everything

Selective disabling would be a lot more complex, because a real decision with
recursive lookup must be made. The current solution is even faster than the
original vfs_permission().

However, I will include this item to the 1.2.0 list. It can be optional, anyway.

Amon.
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