Re: Secure-linux and standard kernel

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 01:11:03 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I am very interested in securing the kernel and user level programs. What
> > types of security measures are being worked on within the standard kernel?
>
> 2.1.x has the beginning work for capabilities. It needs fs support in 2.3
> to be wonderful

Maybe but I'm still toying with some patches to, eg. rlogin et. al. to do

ifdef LINUX_CAPS
drop_all_privs_but_lowsockbind();
endif

Its still pretty cool even with fs support and we'll have it in 2.2 :)

Chris

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