Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19, return of taskfile

john slee
2002-03-15T19:25:37Z

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:55:07PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Umm... By what magic? The entire interface _is_ root-only, isn't it?
> > > And root can do a lot of fun stuff, starting with editing the kernel
> > > image...
> >
> > No argument there.
> >
> > Do we want to assume all raw commands are CAP_SYS_RAWIO or break them down
> > a bit ?
>
> As noone seriously uses capabiities, anyway, I guess CAP_SYS_RAWIO for all
> is ok.

i believe the next debian (after the one currently stabilizing for
release) has "real" use of capabilities as a major goal although that
was hearsay and may be entirely false. the amount of work involved is
not insignificant

it'd certainly be a good thing to see. after all these years of slowly
converting things to use CAP_SYS_* instead of uid==0 i certainly don't
want that effort to be wasted.

j.

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