Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki-news2002-09@lina.inka.de)
Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:57:11 +0100

In article <87znssytu7.fsf@goat.bogus.local> you wrote:
> I still don't get it. How is this different from suid root. The worst
> I can imagine is an admin doing chcap all+eip, which is no different
> from doing a chown root; chmod u+s.

The probvlem is that most software does not know abaout capabilities. A
simple example is libc which will not ignore LD_PRELOAD because it does not
notice that there is a difference in effective and real capabilities of the
proces.

Personally I think this is solvable, and we realy need a way to enable
admins to use the least priveledge principle on their servers by removing
suid root programs completely.

Greetings
Bernd

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