--- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Absolute paths in that kind of thing are _wrong_. You know where the > things > > are on your fs. You don't know if anything else will be visible, let alone > > whether it will be at the same place in all chroots or namespaces. And no, > > you _can't_ make sure that fs is visible only in one place. No fs can or > > has any business even trying. > > What I don't understand here is why we need the hacks when we already > support sufficient mount magic to give each login session its own > private /tmp ?
An embedded system that does not have user logins but that does have applications that require separation, perhaps a moble communication device with application download capability, is just one example where the smack symlink implementation provides the required function without requiring application support. Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
