Pardon the thread necromancy, So recently I had cause to look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID again (I was investigating the X server permissions for an unrelated reason). Now, that page links to http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/index.html which attempts to explain the value of capabilities, etc. I was following along on all of this, and I understand that capabilities have some (non-negligible) value if you don't have e.g. cap_sys_admin. But then I got to the point where it says: "But they still have uid 0, which typical system installation allows root to do things. For example, /bin/sh is 0755 and /bin is also 0755 perms. A disarmed root process can still trojan a system. But what if we got rid of all the read/write permissions for root?" So...right, "we can do these small changes, and then if we do this BIG CHANGE, it all works!". But this feature doesn't include BIG CHANGE, and there are no plans to, right? Or is chmod u-rwx g-rwx on the root filesystem really in the cards? Now, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LowerProcessCapabilities appears to claim 100% completion on this for Fedora 12, but none (?) of it happened? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
