From owner-freebsd-security Sat Nov 27 0:14: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ints.ru (ints.ru [194.67.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2414414CA3 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ilmar@ints.ru) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ints.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA23007; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:13:54 +0300 (MSK) Received: from ws-ilmar.ints.ru(194.67.173.16) via SMTP by ints.ru, id smtpdj23005; Sat Nov 27 11:13:48 1999 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ws-ilmar.ints.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25068; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:13:47 +0300 (MSK) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 11:13:46 +0300 (MSK) From: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACLs 0.1 for FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > Currently I don't have support in the underlying file system (a common > complaint these days :-), but much of the rest of the code is there, in a > hopefully POSIX.1e compliant form. It's available under a 2-clause > BSD-style license, so should be incorporatable in open-source and > commercial software, and may be useful beyond the BSD arena. It is a 0.1 > release, meaning that there are chunks missing (setfacl implementation, > the fine-grained ACL manipulation library routines, man pages), but a lot > is also there. We hope to get something resembling this into 4.0-CURRENT > of FreeBSD before the code freeze, even if the underlying file systems > don't support it, so that it would be easier for people to add support for > it with a firm and well-distributed API. Feel free to download, inspect, > and complain. Feel free also to submit code fixes, new features, and make > constructive suggestions :-). And how about including MAC or CAP code in -current? MAC code lacks only fs support right now. CAP exists only as some syscalls, i just don't have time now. It would be verrry nice to have all your posix.1e work in the main source tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message