I have tested posix sem,posix shm and posix msg queue for ACL on fedora 12 with kernel 2.6.32. Posix sem and posix shm using tmpfs monted by default support ACL well . Posix msg queue use mqueue fs mounted by manual but it seem not surpoort ACL well. It failed for setting named ACL item: { $ mkdir /dev/mqueue $ mount -o rw, acl -t mqueue none /dev/mqueue $cd /dev/mqueue "/mq" msg queue object created and used by processes properly $getfacl mq #file: mq #owner:root #group:root user:rw- group::--- other::--- $setfacl -m u:testuser:rw mq /* failed here*/ $setfacl: mq :Operation not supported but mqueue fs works well for setting owner user and owner group items. } I am not sure whether mqueue don't support acl or I make mistake. 2010/1/22 Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>: > (Top-posting fixed.) > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:15 PM, zhou peng <ailvpeng25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 2010/1/21 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:02:27PM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: >>>> zhou peng wrote: >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > There are ACL in file system, but why there are no ACL implementation >>>> > in IPC object, eg. shm, message queue, FIFO? >>>> > >>>> >>>> Most people haven't noticed that IPC objects are even there, much less >>>> that they have mode bits and not ACLs. Even when we were doing security >>>> evaluations on Unix boxes in the 1990's they were considered insufficiently >>>> interesting to justify the additional work to do ACLs. >>>> >>>> If you really want ACLs on IPC objects it would make a dandy little >>>> project for a summer. I would be happy to review patches. >> >> Thanks. It's interesting to add ACL over IPC objects. I want to have a try. >> >>> >>> Or use the posix IPC mechanisms. The Posix shared memory has ACL by >>> using tmpfs as the backing store, and we could add similar support to >>> Posix messages queues as they are also backed by a normal filesystem. >> >> Christoph Hellwig, This way may be convinent. Could you give some >> detailed message. :) >> I only find /proc/ipc/shm file which contain the info of shm objs,and >> tmpfs on /dev/shm which is empty. >> >>> >>> Adding this support to the old SYSV IPC mechanisms would be much harder >>> as they do not fit into the file backed model we use everywhere else at >>> all. >> >> Just like file objects, the mode bits are implment over IPC objects >> without file backed, so I think adding ACL support to IPC objects may >> be somewhat reasonable :) >> >> Thank you all for so many solutions. >> >> I want to control some IPC object (shm, msg queue, semphore) can be >> accessed by which named user or named group just like file objects ACL >> do. >> >> I studied the solution you all referred, The SELinux is powerful but >> may be somewhat complicated. And I am confused with Christoph >> Hellwig‘s solution using tmpfs. > > Well, only posix semphores and posix share memory use tmpfs, I think, > posix msg queues use "mqueue" instead. > -- zhoupeng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html