On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
