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List:       opensolaris-security-discuss
Subject:    Re: Project Setup: CPG (Credential Process Groups)
From:       Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2009-05-14 3:19:06
Message-ID: 4A0B8DAA.20202 () sun ! com
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All set.

Jim



On 05/14/09 06:01, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The following proposal got some +1's, and no -1's from the 
> device-drivers community.
>
> Can we please have a project named "cpg" and a mailing list called 
> "cpg-discuss@".  This might have gotten endorsement from the security 
> community ... Nico can answer that question.  (I *think* it did, but 
> I've not been following the security-discuss@ mailing list.)
>
>     - Garrett
>
>
>> We seek the endorsement of the ON, security, Kerberos and device drivers
>> communities for a project that seeks to add a new, extensible process
>> grouping facility to OpenSolaris.
>>
>> The project is called "Credentials Process Groups" (CPGs) and had a
>> PSARC inception on Wednesday, May 6 2009, under PSARC/2009/271.
>>
>> The project leaders are Nicolas Williams and Garrett D'Amore.
>>
>> Initial consumers of this project would be:
>>
>> - Solaris audio (Boomer)
>> - Solaris Kerberos
>>
>> CPGs are an extensible process grouping facility that uses cred_t for
>> process grouping.
>>
>> The reason for using cred_t for process grouping is to make these
>> process groups visible to device drivers (via cred_t accessors and in
>> IPC (via ucred_get(3C) accessors), that is, in contexts where it's not
>> necessarily possible to directly or indirectly access a proc_t.  The
>> concept comes from the Andrew File System (AFS) concept of Process
>> Authentication Groups (PAGs) and is similar to Linux keyrings.
>>
>> Materials can be found in the ARC case directory, along with the issues
>> file and mail record:
>>
>> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/inception.materials/
>> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/issues
>> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/271/mail
>>
>> Nico & Garrett
>

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