Re: security capabilities on filesystems

[Peter Gordon]

On 1/29/06, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I've poke around for some information but all I got (was this lousy t-shirt)
> that there is no support for capablities stored on a filesystem. However, I'd
> like to ask if there are any chances to see this feature soon.
>

What do you mean exactly? Ext2 (and its journalled cousin, Ext3; I'm
not certain of other filesystems) can both store POSIX-style Access
Control Lists (ACLs) and SELinux labeling as part of the inode
metadata. Hope this helps.
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