On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:09 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> --- Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > ... A file name is a pretty
> > meaningless object in Unixspace ...
>
> Stephen is right that the inode is the object.
> Crispin is right that people care about path names.
>
> The linux-audit folks have been hashing this
> about good and hard. It is true that both the
> pathname /etc/shadow and the inode it represents
> are interesting from various secuirty viewpoints.
> If you insist on either being the definitive
> security referent you will be wrong about half
> the time.
just that LSM is inode based ;)
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