Hi Pavel,
On Nov 11, 2007 2:44 PM, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > A Smack Rule in an "egrep" format is:
> > >
> > > "^[:space:]*Subject[:space:]+Object[:space:]+[rwxaRWXA-]+[:space:]*\n"
>
> Perhaps you should make it space, not 'space or tab', and only allow
> lowercase permissions? That way, parser will be slightly simpler, and
> you'll still have a chance to use 'R' as 'slightly different r'.
>
Thanks for your care about this. It seems not a lot of people have
noticed, but to stop any objections not related to the core smack
code, Casey decided to let the parsing be done in a user-space utility
that sends the rules to the kernel in a predefined strict format.
You can find how the whole story in the smackv11 announcement here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.lsm/4463
Regards,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Homepage: http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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