Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:49:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | "David L. Parsley (lkml account)" <> | Subject | Re: caps in elf headers: use the sticky bit! |
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Hello! (again!)
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:
> You do not want this kind of support in kernel. Believe me. Better use > setuid0 as marker (those are already immutable) and userspace suid > program which implements your CAP_SETFCAP.
This applies just as well to the sticky bit solution; if it's not feasible to have the kernel check the caps in the file when setting the cap flag, you could still have a userspace util that did all the real work. Good idea!
> > Pavel > -- > I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel > Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-). >
- -- David L. Parsley Network Specialist City of Salem Schools
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