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From: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM mailing-list <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 3/4: introduce new capabilities
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:51:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060911065111.GA4850@clipper.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609110807250.14570@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:10:17AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> You cannot reasonable run a program without CAP_REG_OPEN, because 
> ld.so, libc.so and libdl.so all may load a ton of required files 
> underneath you.

A program might quite conceivably drop CAP_REG_OPEN willingly once
it's started, or the administrator might use capset() on it once it's
running.  But, again, this cap is mostly a proof of concept: the
really useful ones are CAP_REG_WRITE and CAP_REG_SXID.

-- 
     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@ens.fr,
     http://www.madore.org/~david/ )

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-11  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-10 13:37 [PATCH 1/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 1/4: enlarge capability sets David Madore
2006-09-10 13:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 2/4: change inheritance semantics David Madore
2006-09-10 13:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 3/4: introduce new capabilities David Madore
2006-09-10 16:23   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-10 16:09     ` David Madore
2006-09-11  8:06       ` James Morris
2006-09-11 12:03         ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-11 16:22           ` Casey Schaufler
2006-09-17 18:06           ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-10 17:56     ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-10 20:03       ` David Madore
2006-09-11  6:10         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-11  6:51           ` David Madore [this message]
2006-09-11 13:42         ` Stephen Smalley
2006-09-17 18:14       ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-17 20:39         ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-17 21:16           ` David Madore
2006-09-18 11:46             ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-18 11:58               ` David Madore
2006-09-18 12:04               ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-18 12:12                 ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-18 16:02               ` Casey Schaufler
2006-09-19  0:25                 ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-19  3:46                   ` Casey Schaufler
2006-09-19  4:09                     ` Joshua Brindle
2006-09-19 15:54                       ` Casey Schaufler
2006-09-19 18:27                   ` Pavel Machek
2006-09-10 13:44 ` David Madore
2006-09-10 13:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 4/4: add filesystem support David Madore

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