Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:37:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Capabilities, this time in elf section |
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David L. Parsley writes:
> Well, the stickybit/immutable solution has been modified so that it can > be compatible with local fs tools, but is still not completely secure with > remote fs's. Still, nfs at least should understand the sticky bit, and if > you can trust the security of the sticky bit on the remote system, it _is_ > possible to use caps with a mount option.
Ugh. Immutable does not survive backup and restore. The sticky bit is not even secure on a Linux 2.2 server.
> I hope you're both following my thread with Pavel Machek, where I have > shown showstopper problems with the setuid0 scheme. It just doesn't > implement capabilities, but rather mutates them badly in order to work > with the setuid0 scheme.
Not so fast. You didn't discover any showstopper problems.
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