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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] capabilities: audit capability use
    Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> writes:

    > There are many basic ways to control processes, including capabilities,
    > cgroups and resource limits. However, there are far fewer ways to find
    > out useful values for the limits, except blind trial and error.
    >
    > Currently, there is no way to know which capabilities are actually used.
    > Even the source code is only implicit, in-depth knowledge of each
    > capability must be used when analyzing a program to judge which
    > capabilities the program will exercise.
    >
    > Generate an audit message at system call exit, when capabilities are used.
    > This can then be used to configure capability sets for services by a
    > software developer, maintainer or system administrator.
    >
    > Test case demonstrating basic capability monitoring with the new
    > message types 1330 and 1331 and how the cgroups are displayed (boot to
    > rdshell):

    You totally miss the interactions with the user namespace so this won't
    give you the information you are aiming for.

    Eric

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