| From: |
| David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
| To: |
| torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH] keys & keyring management update patch |
| Date: |
| Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:07:33 +0100 |
| Cc: |
| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
I've made available a patch that makes some alterations to my key management
stuff, mainly to support keyfs. The patch can be downloaded from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/keys/keys-268rc4mm1.di...
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To summarise the changes in this patch:
(*) There are now five permissions instead of three, which makes things
easier. Hopefully it also means that people will stop thinking keys have
UNIX access permissions, which they do not.
(*) The key "chmod" operation is now "setperm".
(*) fsuid/fsgid are now used instead of euid/egid when using permissions.
(*) Some stuff has been moved from the internal header file into
include/linux/key-ui.h to make it available to keyfs.
(*) /proc/keys is now disabled by default. It pretends keys don't exist
unless you have at least one permission on them.
David
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