Re: request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further

[Christian Borntraeger]

Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I would like to be able to drop capabilities that every normal user has,
> so that network servers can limit the impact of possible future security
> problems further.  For example, I want my non-cgi web server to be able
> to drop the capabilities to
>
>   * fork
>   * execve
>   * ptrace
>   * load kernel modules
>   * mknod
>   * write to the file system

You can have a look at 
http://lsm.immunix.org/ and
http://lsm.immunix.org/lsm_modules.html
if there is something that fits your need. 
If not,  feel free to  write a security module, that is able to do just what 
you want. ;-)

cheers 

Christian

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