Re: security capabilities on filesystems

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 03:50:58 EST


On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:04 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach 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.

this has been asked many many times, and the answer seems to always have
been "no because that's not secure"; I suggest google as a way to find
out more details...

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