Re: link() security

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:59:54 +0100 (BST)


> http://openwall.com. Work based on Solar Designer's Openwall patch has
> been brought forward to more recent 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. Both the
> following projects implement the Openwall secure link feature:
>
> http://grsecurity.net
> http://lsm.immunix.org
>
> This can break some applications that make assumptions wrt. link(2)
> (Courier MTA for example).

How practical is it to make this a mount option and to do so cleanly ?
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