Re: [PATCH] suser to capable changes in char driver

From: Bosko Radivojevic (bole@falcon.etf.bg.ac.yu)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 08:27:19 EST

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> You can't allow stealing of the controlling tty as TTY_CONFIG, it gives you
> direct access to fake input on that console so really wants to be rather
> higher.

I was in doubt about this. Maybe CAP_SYS_ADMIN is better?

Greetings

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