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Trustees has been moved to from subversion to git. This change has been made in order to facilitate the new method by which trustees is developed.

Linux itself is developed using git. The distributed nature of git makes it much simpler to build trustees right on top of the linux kernel itself. So instead of compiling trustees as an external module, you download the patched kernel sources and run make menuconfig as usual. A separate repository will hold the userspace components (settrustees) and documentation for trustees.... read more

I am now hosting this project's subversion repository on Sourceforge.net. I am extremely excited that Sourceforge now makes this service available to all projects.

Trustees 3.0 released. It includes a fix to buffer-size calculation that has existed for some time in the subversion repository and sevaral kbuild fixes that will allow proper compilation on newer kernels. This will be last stable release for sometime as the subversion trunk will be overhauled and brought up to speed with the 2.6 kernel while snuffing out several long-standing misbehaviors. This release also includes patches to several 2.6 kernels so that trustees can be compiled into the kernel.

Hubert Touvet made an excellent spot where permissions were not being applied correctly to the root directory of a share in some cases. For example, if you had

[/dev/hda1]/:andy:RWEBX

And I (andy) tried to touch /somefilethatdoesntexist, I would be unable to. All the permissions were propogating correctly, they were just not being applied to the root directory on files that did not exist already.

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A major bug was fixed in trustees. This will fix many of the instability problems people were having with 3.0pre1. The bug could cause memory corruption leading to OOPS or hard-locks.

Trustees 3.0pre1 is the first semi-official release of the new-and-improved trustees kernel module. It uses the Linux Security Module (LSM) API to provide recursive ACLs without a patch to the kernel. There are some security and other bugs fixed from the original trustees as well.

I moved the project summary from production/stable to beta merely because of the large sections of new code. I have used the new trustees for some time with no apparent problems. Some testing/feedback would sure be appreciated!