Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Feb 2015 18:26:53 +0100 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities |
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Quoting Christoph Lameter (cl@linux.com): > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > We've currently got two proposals. (Three includig yours; but I explained my > > problem with yours earlier this morning - do appreciate the proposal and > > the patch though, really, thanks) It's worth digging into the details of > > each, but if they end up complicating things then perhaps "dropping > > capabilities and going with something new" ought to be another proposal. > > Ok that is about the binding to a person and executable?
It's about at least making it per-process(-tree).
> So you think there should be a cap_inheritable mask settable in the caps > of each file.
No. I mean, we have that now. I just want to require a privileged process to fill in the pA in the first place. If people are currently using file caps "as intended" I don't want behavior to change for them.
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