Re: Capabilities done right...

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Fri, 21 May 1999 18:16:41 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> The problem with this is, that the current capabilities only address
> super-user featues. A non-root user has no caps to drop.
>
> I think I read on the linux-audit list something about CAP_USER priveledges
> whcih can be dropped (accept, fork, exec jumps to mind).

Bind and blocking signals (sighup)..

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