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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: "Sven Köhler" <skoehler@upb.de>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why are capabilities disabled?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:22:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213102230.B14506@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402D0F6D.7090803@upb.de>; from skoehler@upb.de on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:54:53PM +0100

* Sven Köhler (skoehler@upb.de) wrote:
> >>"getpcaps 1" shows, that the init-process is started without 
> >>cap_setpcap, and i know that i can change that somehow.
> >>So why are capabilities disabled? and how do i enable them?

Oh, I see.  Not having cap_setpcap does not mean capabilities are
disabled.  It's the standard set.

> i found the hint again: i have to change the value CAP_INIT_EFF_SET in 
> capability.h, so that init-process is not started with disabled 
> cap_setpcap, but is this still a security risk?

Yes.  Don't do that.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-13 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-13 15:29 Sven Köhler
2004-02-13 16:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13 17:54   ` Sven Köhler
2004-02-13 18:08     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-13 18:22       ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-02-13 18:44         ` Chris Wright
2004-02-13 18:22     ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-02-13 15:35 Sven Köhler
2004-02-13 18:15 ` Chris Wright

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