Theodore Y. Ts'o writes:
>    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.

That's not true. I've explained clearly how to do it.

				Regards,

					Richard....

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