From: Michael Kerrisk <m.kerrisk@gmx.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Status of capabilities?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:28:55 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035.1021012135@www51.gmx.net> (raw)
Gidday,
What are the current status and future of capabilites? There seems to be no
up-to-date information on this anywhere.
It seems capabilities have been partly implemented since 2.2. That is to
say:
1. The kernel checks (effective) capabilities when performing various
operations.
2. System calls are provided to raise and lower capabilties
What's still missing in 2.4, as far as I can see after reading the sources,
is the ability to set capabilities on executable files so that a process
gains those privileges when executing the file. I recall seeing some information
somewhere saying this wasn't possible / wasn't going to happen for ext2. Is
it on the drawing board for any file system?
Thanks
Michael
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next reply other threads:[~2002-05-10 6:29 UTC|newest]
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2002-05-10 6:28 Michael Kerrisk [this message]
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2002-06-26 12:40 Status of capabilities? Michael Kerrisk
2002-06-27 6:05 ` Dax Kelson
2002-06-27 12:57 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-06-27 20:54 ` Chris Wright
2002-06-27 22:52 ` Dax Kelson
2002-07-06 20:56 ` Chris Wright
2002-06-28 13:20 Jesse Pollard
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