From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Ambient capabilities for setpriv
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:11:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170625091159.GA981@pks-xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVGTZ=2Y+fOKONYZ8_nuvZC7HE2TUsJTH-beQHU7vLgJw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 01:43:10PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch series implements support for ambient capabilities in
> > setpriv(1). Ambient capabilities have been implemented with Linux
> > 4.3 by Andy Lutomirski [1]. Quoting from capabilities(7):
> >
> > This is a set of capabilities that are preserved across an
> > execve(2) of a program that is not privileged.
> >
> > The patches are inspired and squarely based on published patches
> > for util-linux by Andy [2]. As these commits seem to never have
> > been upstreamed, I've contacted Andy a few days ago whether he
> > intends to do so in the near future, but got no response. Anyway,
> > as I would like to have ambient capabilities available in
> > setpriv, I took up the baton and wrote this patch series.
>
> Sorry, was swamped. I very much appreciate your doing this.
No problem, and thanks for having a look!
Patrick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-25 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-24 14:04 [PATCH 0/5] Ambient capabilities for setpriv Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] setpriv: introduce indirection for `capng_type` enum Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] setpriv: proxy function checking whether a capability is set Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 20:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] setpriv: proxy function to update capabilities Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 20:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] setpriv: support dumping ambient capabilities Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 20:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-24 14:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] setpriv: support modifying the set of " Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 20:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-25 9:33 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2017-06-24 20:44 ` [PATCH 1/5] setpriv: introduce indirection for `capng_type` enum Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-24 20:43 ` [PATCH 0/5] Ambient capabilities for setpriv Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-25 9:11 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2017-06-27 13:14 ` Karel Zak
2017-06-27 16:00 ` Patrick Steinhardt
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