Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:10:32 +0200
From: Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no>
To: lwn@eklektix.com
Subject: Comment to lwn - capabilities

Just to clear up some things concerning 'capabilities' in 2.1.94. 

BSD-securelevel was *already* in the kernel and is being *dropped*.

*capabilities* replaces securelevel and replaces even the notion of a
'root' user. being root is emulated by having a set of
capabilities. capabilities and securelevel are different
things. capabilities are in, securelevel is out. Linus rejected a
patch that would increase the use of BSD-like securelevel in the
kernel.

I'll make some documentation on this later and hopefully some web-pages.

astor

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