Re: Frustrated with capabilities..

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Wed 2008-08-27 12:31:10, Markku Savela wrote:
> I just want to run an exectable with limited capabilities and assumed
> the following approach would work fine:
> 
>  1) fork process
>  2) in child
> 
>     2.1 set current capabilities (eip) using cap_set_proc
>     2.2 execve the executable.
> 
> But it frigging does not work! Just before the execve, the result of
> cap_to_text is
> 
>     = cap_net_bind_service+eip
> 
> but, in the execve executable, the result is suddenly
> 
>     = cap_net_bind_service+i
> 
> Why does the execve clear the effective and permitted capabities,
> against my clear instructions? (I also have the prctl KEEP_CAPS set,
> though in this case it should be irrelevant).
> 
> - The kernel is from ubuntu distro, 2.6.24.
> 
> - the executable *does* *not* have any setuid/setgid bits
> 
> - the upcoming file capabities will not be any help, because I will
>   need to start the same executable with different capabilities
>   depending on context.

Yes, you need upcoming filesystem capabilities.  Binary may not
inherit capabilities unless filesystem flags permit that.

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