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From: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:08:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031216140821.GA1117@admingilde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0312151700320.15531@chaos>

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hi :)

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Of course, some root-shell programs bypass the 'C' runtime libraries.
of course, they have to as shellcode won't include a dynamic linker. ;)

so your approach does not help from a security point of view,
and felix only was concerned about security.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-16 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-15 21:39 request: capabilities that allow users to drop privileges further Felix von Leitner
2003-12-15 22:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-15 22:55   ` Christian Borntraeger
2003-12-16 14:08   ` Martin Waitz [this message]
2003-12-15 22:34 ` Christian Borntraeger
2003-12-15 22:48 ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 14:13   ` Martin Waitz
2003-12-17  1:30   ` Felix von Leitner
2003-12-17  1:41     ` Chris Wright
2003-12-16 13:27 ` James Morris

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