Date: 	Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:11:56 +0200
   From: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>

   It is not a showstopper. Your capabilities do NOT prevent you from
   trojan horses. If you run program with uid=0, it does not need any
   special privileges to screw you up. [Hint: who is owner of /etc/passwd?]

Then don't run programs setuid root!  This is why using setuid root as
the method for marking that a file has capabilities is a complete
non-starter, as we have discussed before.

						- Ted

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