Re: [PATCH] securityfs

From: serge
Date: Mon Jul 04 2005 - 07:54:09 EST


Quoting Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx):
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:53:17PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Tony Jones wrote:
> >
> > > There just isn't enough content to justify a stacker specific filesystem IMHO.
> >
> > It might be worth thinking about a more general securityfs as part of LSM,
> > to be used by stacker and LSM modules. SELinux could use this instead of
> > managing its own selinuxfs.
>
> Good idea. Here's a patch to do just that (compile tested only...)

Having all the security relevant stuff under one place has been
something we've wanted to do for awhile :) Thanks, Greg!

All my good machines are down right now, so compiling is slow, but I'm
attempting to convert seclvl to use securityfs. So far the resulting
code is quite nice. I'll hopefully send something out tomorrow.

thanks,
-serge
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