Re: [PATCH 3/4] security: capabilities patch (version 0.4.4), part 3/4: introduce new capabilities

[David Madore]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:10:17AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> You cannot reasonable run a program without CAP_REG_OPEN, because 
> ld.so, libc.so and libdl.so all may load a ton of required files 
> underneath you.

A program might quite conceivably drop CAP_REG_OPEN willingly once
it's started, or the administrator might use capset() on it once it's
running.  But, again, this cap is mostly a proof of concept: the
really useful ones are CAP_REG_WRITE and CAP_REG_SXID.

-- 
     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@xxxxxx,
     http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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