Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:27:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities |
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On Wed 2015-02-25 17:59:04, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > One solution is to put capabilities into the elf executable. I believe > > there was patch for that. That means you don't need to add capability > > support into filesystems... > > Ummm... So I can just get any caps by modifying the ELF header? > Looking at the docs No, it just drops caps so binaries must be > setsuid.
exactly. Normal apps are not currently allowed to receive capabilities, because they may not be ready for them.
So add an elf note marking what capabilities it can deal with. No need for setuid if caller has the capabilities already.
Pavel
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