Re: help needed: LSM acronym
Le 5 janvier 2018 21:42:31 GMT+01:00, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> a écrit :
>Hi!
>I'd like to ask for help with devising an acronym, as my ability with
>puns
>or other wordplay in any language is almost non-existant.
>
>Background: I'm working on a kernel facility to set a policy for
>filenames,
While that will prevent as redirections nightmare as non-printables ones, I suggest something like a variation on :
SCATTTY
a) secure cat tty
b) scat tty (like in jazz, yet pronunceable even meanless)
c) shells can/could always type totally
d) ? ...
>for security reasons. The recommended defaults are banning '\n' and
>01..31,
>the user can also elect to ban invalid Unicode, initial and final
>spaces,
>initial '-', etc. The initial hard-coded patch was NACKed, and I was
>told
>to re-do this as a LSM.
>
>A LSM needs a name, and the tradition is to use bad acronyms, of which
>"Yet
>Another Meaningless Acronym" takes the cake.
>
>The best I've been able to come up with was: kitteh "Kill Invalid Tree
>Terms, Evading Harm". This is groan-worthy, and especially "tree" is
>incorrect as files/dirs/sockets/fifos/etc are at most tree nodes.
>
>Thus, could someone suggest something betterer? It doesn't need to
>spell
>"kitteh", nor even anything cat themed, although obviously references
>to
>nasty things like dogs, Hitler or emacs (in decreasing order of
>badness)
>are unpreferred.
>
>Lamby suggested using a name that would be rejected by this module, but
>alas, I don't think a .c file by that name would get past the vfs
>maintainer.
>
>
>Meow!
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