[788] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] standard users,groups,perms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Wed Jun 12 18:59:42 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:17:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@et.tudelft.nl>
cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606111611.SAA00683@cave.et.tudelft.nl>
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> The "Almighty" "root" account has lots of privileges.
> (override filesystem permissions, access to IO ports, etc
> etc.). This should be abolished.
>
> To do this, every uid should get
> a bitvector of privileges. Every "suser()" call in the
> kernel should get mapped to one of the bits. The default
> setup sets all of these bits to "enabled" for "root" and
> "disabled" for all other users.
Here, you are referring to something very similar to POSIX.6 (or whatever
the new name for this is). It's already being worked on, and there is a
preliminary patch available.... keep a look out during 2.1 development.
If you're interested in contributing to this system, drop a mail on
linux-kernel mentioning this, and I'm sure the person working on it will
contact you. I think his name was "Darren Moffat".
Chris.
