Re: [PATCH] Capabilities, this time in elf section

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:09:08 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Or get somebody capable running it. I.e, suspect that people are liable to
> type "sl" for "ls", and hide an "sl" binary with all caps somewhere.

Only trusted people should be able to write to trusted bin dirs. People
shouldn't have ./ or other unrested directories in their path unless they
want someone to take over their caps/account.

How about an extension to ext2 to allow GPG sigs on files, and a kernel
module that only allows files to be executed if they are signed by a
trusted key. :)

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