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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2
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    Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

    > On Thu, 13 May 2004 18:20:10 PDT, Chris Wright said:
    >
    >> I think it still needs more work. Default behavoiur is changed, like
    >> Inheritble is full rather than clear, setpcap is enabled, etc. Also,
    >> why do you change from Posix the way exec() updates capabilities? Sure,
    >> there is no filesystem bits present, so this changes the calculation,
    >> but I'm not convinced it's as secure this way. At least with newcaps=0.
    >
    > The last time the "capabilities" thread reared its head a while ago, Andy made
    > a posting that pretty conclusively showed that the Posix way was totally b0rken
    > if you ever intended to support filesystem bits. So if you wanted to ever have
    > a snowball's chance of supporting something like:
    >
    > chcap cap_net_raw+ep /bin/ping

    Seems like you're not aware of:
    <http://www.olafdietsche.de/linux/capability/>

    This supports filesystem capabilities with the current (POSIX?)
    implementation. So, whatever Andy has shown, it has at least one
    counter evidence q.e.d.

    > 2) Toss all the filesystems capabilities support out the window.

    I agree to disagree ;-)

    Regards, Olaf.
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