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Date:      Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:50:29 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding policy tuning knobs to my F_SETOWN/SIGIO/SIGURG enhancements
Message-ID:  <19981213175029.Q5444@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199812130828.AAA23748@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:28:56AM -0800
References:  <199812130828.AAA23748@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:28:56AM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> 
> My previous security enhancements to the F_SETOWN/SIGIO/SIGURG in the 3.0
> kernel code made some policy decisions that were hard-wired into the code
> but were commented in case someone needed to change them.  I've decided
> that would be good to allow the security policy to be tuned using some
> sysctl knobs.

Why?  What benefits does the ability to relax permissions on this
give?  I can see the use for tuning 'em up, but not really down...

Eivind.

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