> Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> Now, I have to run this process as root, regardless of filesystem
>> permissions. So, if I trust this particular process with full
>> privileges now, there's no problem in reducing its power a little bit.
>>
> What about writing a small wrapper application that drops all
> priveleges except CAP_RAWIO, switches to user to the user you want,
> then execs the target application that needs to access /dev/kmem?
I just tried this, but I didn't succeed. :-(
> Or store the capabilities in the filesystem, but I don't know which
> filesystem supports that.
There's none so far.
Regards, Olaf.
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