Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:54:53 +0100 | From | Sven Köhler <> | Subject | Re: why are capabilities disabled? |
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>>"getpcaps 1" shows, that the init-process is started without >>cap_setpcap, and i know that i can change that somehow. >>So why are capabilities disabled? and how do i enable them?
i found the hint again: i have to change the value CAP_INIT_EFF_SET in capability.h, so that init-process is not started with disabled cap_setpcap, but is this still a security risk?
> There was a long thread back in October 2003 labeled: > Subject: Re: posix capabilities inheritance > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106673587410831&w=2
everybody's talking about filesystem-capabilities etc. i still dream of starting a process with a certain capability. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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