Re: RFC: Network privilege separation.

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 16:10:53 EST


Michael Stone <michael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> For the sake of discussion, I have written up and documented one possible
> implementation of this concept based on the idea of a new rlimit named
> RLIMIT_NETWORK in the following patch series.
>
> I eagerly await your questions, comments, suggestions, and improvements.

At least for outgoing packets you could already do it using the netfilter
owner match and a suitable uid. I suppose that could be also extended
for incoming packets.

-Andi
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