Re: Securelevel in Linux? (Was: Re: immutable flag on ext2fs)

Jonathan Walther (krooger@debian.org)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:41:20 -0700 (PDT)

Whether we have true securelevels or securelevels implemented with
capabilities, its still damn handy to be able to flip between them.
Securelevels handle the majority of cases in a UNIX way. Capabilities are
cool, but they hark more of the mainframe world. Some Linux based "systems"
may be put together that use them to the full, but UNIX with a Linux kernel
will never truly use capabilities beyond a few token things. The model is
too drastically different.

Jonathan

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Alan, I know we have capabilities in the kernel. Did the securelevel code
> > finally get added back in? If so this is a time for celebration. What
> > programs let an admin flip between securelevels on their linux box?
>
> You don't want securelevel if you have capabilities in right. Capabilities
> are simply fine grained securelevel
>
>
>

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