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SubjectRe: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1
Quoting Christoph Lameter (cl@linux.com):
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
> > > I do not see a problem with dropping privilege since the ambient set
> > > is supposed to be preserved across a drop of priviledge.
> >
> > Because you're tricking the program into thinking it has dropped
> > the privilege, when in fact it has not.
>
> So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active
> in the ambient set?

Right, and the legacy program doesn't know to check the new set.


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