Proposed changes to suser()

David Greenman dg at root.com
Sun May 7 03:40:52 GMT 2000


>kernel components: it is important that while introducing infrastructure
>for security improvements that we don't open up security holes.
>
>Patches for these changes will be available shortly.  I am still catching
>the last few suser() calls.  Third party modules making use of the suser()
>call will need to be changed to set ASU properly.
>
>Any comments?

   Sounds pretty good to me, although suser_used said quickly is a bit of a
tongue twister.

-DG

David Greenman
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