As many of you will have seen over this summer there was traffic on this (and other) opensolaris.org list about Johannes Nicolai's project on expanding the basic privilege set.
The Google Summer of Code for 2006 has finished now and a copy of Johannes report is in the security community along with pointers to webrev's of the code changes. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/gsoc2006/ I believe that Johannes is very interested in getting this integrated into OpenSolaris and expanding it to other filesystems (at the moment it is only tmpfs and ufs). I support this effort and hope to work further with Johannes to get this integrated. To do that we really need feed back from people in this community to know if we should proceed with what Johannes has implemented so far or if we need changes to it. Basically I'm asking for a design review before we go to ARC with this. In particular I'd like input from Casper Dik, Glenn Faden, Gary Winiger if possible (I know you are all "listening"). Thanks Johannes for a great contribution to OpenSolaris and our first (or hopefully many) year(s) in Google Summer of Code. -- Darren J Moffat
