On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> That's sort of what my patch does -- you need CAP_SETPCAP to switch >> the securebit. >> >> But Christoph's patch required it to add caps to the ambient set, right? > > Yes but you seem to be just adding one additional step without too much of > a benefit because you still need CAP_SETPCAP. > No, because I set the default to on :) Also, in my model you can do: $ sudo capset cap_whatever=eip something $ ./something and the program can make its cap be ambient and run a helper. In the CAP_SETPCAP model, that doesn't work. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
