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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:10:17AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> You cannot reasonable run a program without CAP_REG_OPEN, because
> ld.so, libc.so and libdl.so all may load a ton of required files
> underneath you.
A program might quite conceivably drop CAP_REG_OPEN willingly once
it's started, or the administrator might use capset() on it once it's
running. But, again, this cap is mostly a proof of concept: the
really useful ones are CAP_REG_WRITE and CAP_REG_SXID.
--
David A. Madore
(david.madore@ens.fr,
http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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