PERFORCE change 94046 for review
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 26 13:58:53 UTC 2006
http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=94046
Change 94046 by rwatson at rwatson_peppercorn on 2006/03/26 12:37:22
More information on what POSIX.1e privileges do.
Affected files ...
.. //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/cap.page#2 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/cap.page#2 (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/cap.page#1 $
+ $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/www/cap.page#2 $
</cvs:keyword>
</cvs:keywords>
@@ -44,10 +44,14 @@
<span id="cvsup-collection">p4-cvs-trustedbsd-cap</span>
</p>
- <p>POSIX.1e breaks down root privilege into a set of capabilities, or
- more strictly, privileges, which allow the meeting of specific
+ <p>POSIX.1e breaks root privilege into a set of capabilities, or
+ more strictly, privileges, which allow the granting of specific
privilege requirements for POSIX calls, such as setuid().
- The TrustedBSD capability project is currently inactive, but an
+ POSIX.1e defines extension to process and file state to allow
+ privileges to be granted to processes, either by inheritence or
+ a file privilege model similar to setuid/setgid.</p>
+
+ <p>The TrustedBSD capability project is currently inactive, but an
implementation of POSIX.1e capabilities for an older FreeBSD release
is available and functional, and may be found in Perforce/cvsup.
Certain key files are provided in a tarball for download on this
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