Re: RFC: capability to limit/allow access to various system info

From: Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 08:29:06 EST


On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:23:41PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
> safe when allowed to do too much... For now I have just written a daemon
> process that runs chrooted as root and the CGI script connects to it
> (running as specific user), passess its credentials and if they match a
> compile-time defaults, the quota information is returned and shown to the
> user. Well... it works, but is far from elegant and much more complicated
> than it would be if I had the capabilities we're discussing now.

My apologies for my previous post. I missed this bit. I don't think
that the simplicity gained by removing the daemon would justify adding
additional kernel caps.

Sean

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