Re: Capabilities

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 04:11:43 EST

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Hi!

> > (Program that can modify files for DNS and which is allowed to bind
> > low port is doable with elfcap, but not with this proposal, because
> > there are no additional bits to store "new uid" as I do in elfcap.
>
> Why can't it be done in this proposal? Binding to a low port is a

My proposal was to drop forced set and keep only allowed in
filesystem. That just is not good enough. Consider proposal dead.
Pavel

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