Re: [PATCH 00/12] One more attempt at useful kernel lockdown

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>>
>> I.e. capabilities ;)
> 
> Circles.  All I see here are circles.
> 
> Having lived an entire release with a capabilities based mechanism for
> this in Fedora, please no.
> 
> And if you are talking about non-POSIX capabilities as you mentioned
> earlier, that seems to be no different than having securelevel being a
> bitmask of, well, levels.  I don't have much opinion on securelevel
> being a big hammer or a bitmask of finer grained things, but I do
> think it's a more manageable way forward.  Calling the implementation
> "capabilities" seems to just be unnecessarily confusing.
> 

This is the term "capability" in the general sense, not the POSIX
implementation thereof.

	-hpa


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