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SubjectRe: [RFC] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > Would this suffice? It puts the CAP_SETPCAP limitation back to how it
> > was in my earlier patch.
> I really don't like that variant. CAP_SETPCAP is dangerous and so
> absurdly powerful that people really shouldn't hand it out.

According to

man 7 capabilities

CAP_SETPCAP is required to setup securebits.

This hides the functionality behind yet another stage of security and
obscures this ability somewhat more?


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