Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2002 20:28:50 +0100 (BST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Completely honor prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, 1) |
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On Wed, 8 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002 03:40:11 -0600 (MDT), > Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com> wrote: > >Originally when a process set*uided all capabilities bits were cleared. > >Then sometime later (wish BK went back 3 years), the behaviour was > >modified according to the comment "A process may, via prctl(), elect to > >keep its capabilites when it calls setuid() and switches away from > >uid==0. Both permitted and effective sets will be retained." > > FWIW, the change was in 2.2.18-pre18, between October 26 and 29, 2000.
I did the original change in 2.3.x. Since it is so important to get useful capability functionality, someone (Chris Wing?) backported the change to 2.2.x.
I'll reply to the original e-mail shortly..
Cheers Chris
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