Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1)

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Bodo Eggert (harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org) wrote:
> Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
> > * David Madore (david.madore@ens.fr) 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?

typically you'd expect exec suid will reset to full caps.
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