Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching

[David Howells]

Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Have it access them as 0.0 (root) when you change the fsuid, etc. and I think
> this would satisfy security concerns.

That's what I'm currently doing, but Christoph objected and said I'm not
allowed to change fsuid and fsgid.

That also doesn't cover the MAC issues.

> I agree that it sounds like someone needs to instrument MAC layers with this
> subsystem.

Yes.

David
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