2.0.3-pre2 posted

Hi,

I have just posted a new pre-release of Dazuko. This includes support 
for Default Capabilities under Linux 2.6. The "capability" module itself 
does nothing more than hooking LSM calls. Now Dazuko can do this so that 
the "capability" module is no longer needed. Dazuko only does this if it 
is configured to support Default Capabities:

./configure --enable-default-capabities

Just as the "capability" module requires the "commoncap" module, Dazuko 
also requires the "commoncap" module if Default Capabilities is enabled.

modprobe commoncap

I have updated the FAQ to discuss this.

http://www.dazuko.org/faq.shtml#8

Thank you Jürgen for your help on this issue. Although this does not 
solve all our Linux 2.6 LSM problems, it should allow most people to 
move to Linux 2.6 without problems with Dazuko.

Amon Ott from RSBAC will be providing a scaled down version of RSBAC 
that only supports Dazuko. This should make it very easy for people who 
want to use Dazuko with Linux 2.6. After all, the hooks in RSBAC are 
much more powerful and broad than those in the Linux 2.6 LSM.

Aside from the Default Capabilities stuff, I have also fixed the problem 
with Dazuko not compiling with ON_CLOSE_MODIFIED enabled on Linux 
2.2/2.4 and FreeBSD 4. Thanks Alberto for pointing out the problem.

On another note, I have been made aware that there are two new language 
ports of the Dazuko interface: PHP from Oliver Welter and Perl from 
Gerhard Sittig.

Over the next few weeks I hope to get them moved into the official 
package. More languages are always cool!

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer