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No surprise

No surprise

Posted Dec 11, 2010 22:20 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: No surprise by spender
Parent article: Pathname-based hooks for SELinux?

From a user/admin standpoint it never made much sense to me that the same data in a file system could have multiple different permissions associated with it. It's just asking for trouble if I could have a filename that was only root readable on one hand, but have the same data world writable on the other hand just based on how they are referenced in the directory tree.

This does seem like the right way to go.


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