From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751049AbWIHTKK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751072AbWIHTKK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:10:10 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:14560 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049AbWIHTKI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:10:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:10:04 +0200 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1) Message-ID: <20060908191004.GA15106@lina.inka.de> References: <20060907173449.GA24013@clipper.ens.fr> <20060907230028.GB30916@elf.ucw.cz> <20060908012201.GA14280@lina.inka.de> <20060908143946.GD17680@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060908143946.GD17680@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:39:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, then mistake was running that daemon with elevated priviledges > in the first place. there are workers out there which expect to be started priveldged, do something (bind, suid, ...) and then drop priveledges. If those check if the drop is needed based on the euid... Of course this can be solved better, however i remeber that those cases are the ones where compatibility means any priveledge -> euid = 0. Anyway, I think there is something like that in the proposed patch, so it looks good. Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- Bernd_Eckenfels@Mörscher_Strasse_8.76185Karlsruhe.de -- ( .. ) ecki@{inka.de,linux.de,debian.org} http://www.eckes.org/ o--o 1024D/E383CD7E eckes@IRCNet v:+497211603874 f:+49721151516129 (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!