Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:46:02 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks) |
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Hi!
> If we heave the LSM stuff overboard, there's one thing that *will* need > addressing - what to do with kernel support of Posix-y capabilities. Currently > some of the heavy lifting is done by security/commoncap.c. > > Frankly, that's *another* thing that we need to either *fix* so it works right, > or rip out of the kernel entirely. As far as I know, there's no in-tree way > to make /usr/bin/ping be set-CAP_NET_RAW and have it DTRT.
Well, you can still have ping drop all but CAP_NET_RAW as a first thing in main(), which is almost as good. And IIRC some apps actually do that...
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