Re: [PATCH 0/5] Ambient capabilities for setpriv

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 01:43:10PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch series implements support for ambient capabilities in
> > setpriv(1). Ambient capabilities have been implemented with Linux
> > 4.3 by Andy Lutomirski [1]. Quoting from capabilities(7):
> >
> >     This is a set of capabilities that are preserved across an
> >     execve(2) of a program that is not privileged.
> >
> > The patches are inspired and squarely based on published patches
> > for util-linux by Andy [2]. As these commits seem to never have
> > been upstreamed, I've contacted Andy a few days ago whether he
> > intends to do so in the near future, but got no response. Anyway,
> > as I would like to have ambient capabilities available in
> > setpriv, I took up the baton and wrote this patch series.
> 
> Sorry, was swamped.  I very much appreciate your doing this.

No problem, and thanks for having a look!

Patrick

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