Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 23:58:53 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Capabilities - call for help |
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Hi!
Capabilities are nice thing to have, but for any capability model to work, it needs to be known which program needs what capabilities.
For example - sendmail is currently setuid root. I do not like it, but there's no easy way to find out what capabilities sendmail really needs.
Documenting requirements for every critical program (critical = setuid | system daemon) is lot of work, but it needs to be done. It would be nice if distribution creators added notices "which privileges are needed" into program manuals. Other posibility is to create central repository for such information.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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