From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
To: Manfred Georg <mgeorg@arl.wustl.edu>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities not inherited
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:41:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118263314.969.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0506081513340.22095@chewbacca.arl.wustl.edu>
ons 2005-06-08 klockan 15:27 -0500 skrev Manfred Georg:
> Hi,
>
> I was working with passing capabilities through an exec and it
> didn't do what I expected it to. That is, if I set a bit in
> the inherited capabilities, it is not "inherited" after an
> exec(). After going through the code many times, and still not
> understanding it, I hacked together this patch. It probably
> has unforseen side effects and there was probably some
> reason it was not done in the first place.
Please read the thread at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1571.html
Basically it says that because a broken interface was accepted from the
beginning it can't be changed due to the security aspect.
The whole thing sucks, sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 20:27 [PATCH] capabilities not inherited Manfred Georg
2005-06-08 20:41 ` Alexander Nyberg [this message]
2005-06-08 21:26 ` Manfred Georg
2005-06-08 20:44 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-08 21:20 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-06-08 21:33 ` Manfred Georg
2005-06-08 21:46 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-06-08 21:54 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-08 21:59 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-08 23:49 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-09 2:59 ` David Wagner
2005-06-09 10:32 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-06-09 14:55 ` David Wagner
2005-06-09 15:31 ` Lee Revell
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