Re: Linux capabilities shouldn't be lost during setuid to non-root from root or to another non-root uid from a non-root uid.

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

Quoting crocket (crockabiscuit@gmail.com):
> Thanks for the precious information.
> 
> I think capsh should be introduced somewhere in some manuals.

Would mentioning capsh in capabilities(7) be a good idea?

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there an existing utility that sets SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP?
> > Or is there a way to set it without writing a C wrapper program?
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:
> >> Quoting crocket (crockabiscuit@gmail.com):
> >>> I have several questions.
> >>>
> >>> 1) How do I set SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP?
> >>
> >> prctl(PR_SET_SECUREBITS, SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP | SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP_LOCKED)
> >>
> >> see capabilities(7) for details.
> >>
> >>> 2) Is there any reason to unset SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP by default?
> >>
> >> Yes, because it's what userspace expects.  If you prefer to run in
> >> a full POSIX capabilities environment with unprivileged root, you
> >> can have init set SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP and SECBIT_NOROOT and
> >> tune userspace to do the right thing, but it's not trivial.
> >>
> >> -serge
> >>
> >