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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: two bugfixes
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:41:04 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402572.41716.qm@web36607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061208193657.GB18566@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>


--- "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> ...
> The other is that root can lose capabilities by
> executing files with
> only some capabilities set.  The next two patches
> change these
> behaviors.

It was the intention of the POSIX group that
capabilities be independent of uid. I would
argue that the old bevavior was correct, that
a program marked to lose a capability ought
to even if the uid is 0.


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-08 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08 19:36 [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: two bugfixes Serge E. Hallyn
2006-12-08 19:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] file capabilities: don't do file caps if MNT_NOSUID Serge E. Hallyn
2006-12-08 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: honor !SECURE_NOROOT Serge E. Hallyn
2006-12-08 20:41 ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2006-12-08 21:16   ` [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: two bugfixes Serge E. Hallyn
2006-12-08 22:08     ` Casey Schaufler
2006-12-09  0:43 ` Seth Arnold
2006-12-11 21:31   ` Crispin Cowan

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