Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2005-09-21 15:05:37 GMT (3 years, 40 weeks, 6 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes ago)
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, David Howells wrote:
>
> The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a
> key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes
> SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key
> targets using the LSM facilities.
Ok, maybe I'm just strange, but when I see code like
if (is_key_possessed(keyref)) {
I'm inevitably mentally going "Linda Blair! It is spewing pea-soup and
rotating its head!"
Maybe not the best of naming practices..
Linus