PERFORCE change 148400 for review

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 25 16:38:37 UTC 2008


http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=148400

Change 148400 by rwatson at rwatson_fledge on 2008/08/25 16:37:46

	Clarify status of privileges project on privileges page.

Affected files ...

.. //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/privileges.page#3 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/privileges.page#3 (text+ko) ====

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/privileges.page#2 $
+      $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/privileges.page#3 $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
 	<span id="cvsup-collection">p4-cvs-trustedbsd-cap</span>
       </p>
 
+      <p>NB: Historically this project was referred to as fine-grained
+	capabilities, but due to a vocabulary conflict, it has been renamed
+	to fine-grained privileges. Information in this page currently refers
+	to a FreeBSD 5.x-era project to support fine-grained privileges, and
+	will shortly be superseded by a similar project for FreeBSD 8.x.</p>
+
       <p>POSIX.1e breaks root privilege into a set of privileges
 	(historically referred to as "Capabilities"), which allow the
 	granting of specific privilege requirements for POSIX calls, such


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