Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1)

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Chris Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> * David Madore ([email protected]) wrote:

>> * Second, a much more extensive change, the patch introduces a third
>> set of capabilities for every process, the "bounding" set.  Normally
> 
> this is not a good idea.  don't add more sets. if you really want to
> work on this i'll give you all the patches that have been done thus far,
> plus a set of tests that look at all the execve, ptrace, setuid type of
> corner cases.

How are you going to tell processes that may exec suid (or set-capability-)
programs from those that aren't supposed to gain certain capabilities?

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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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