Re: Capabilities

From: Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 17:40:09 EST


On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:

> I want to be able to start a daemon, drop all capabilities except the one
> I need, and then setuid() to a non-privileged user.
>
> Linux needs your patch!

I've tested my patch fairly carefully in the scenario you mention. I'll
rediff and submit to Linus once the rabid 2.3 kernel patching calms
down.

Cheers
Chris

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