Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:52:06 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1) |
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* Bodo Eggert (harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org) wrote: > Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote: > > * David Madore (david.madore@ens.fr) wrote: > > >> * Second, a much more extensive change, the patch introduces a third > >> set of capabilities for every process, the "bounding" set. Normally > > > > this is not a good idea. don't add more sets. if you really want to > > work on this i'll give you all the patches that have been done thus far, > > plus a set of tests that look at all the execve, ptrace, setuid type of > > corner cases. > > How are you going to tell processes that may exec suid (or set-capability-) > programs from those that aren't supposed to gain certain capabilities?
typically you'd expect exec suid will reset to full caps. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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