Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add some long-missing capabilities to fs_mask | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:03:28 -0400 |
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:56:14 CDT, "Serge E. Hallyn" said: > When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux > cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having > fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and > CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege > to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0.
Wow. How did this manage to stay un-noticed for this long? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |