Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 1999 09:24:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Is that missfeature of sh? I thought that it was race between sh being > loaded and potential change of file. Malicious user could delete suid > program and replace it with his own code with other name -- that is > not easily worked around. So capabilities support will have to go into > sperl, anyway.
It =is= easily worked around. Using /proc there ave been patches around for a long time.
Anyway, the whole point was that there are cases where you want to =remove= capabilities. And hey, if you have a hacker that tries to take over that removal, tell him hello.
> Did I convince you now?
No.
Linus
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