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From: Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: quantum capabilities
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:41:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <444B4BBE.4090009@poczta.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420211822.GC2360@ucw.cz>

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Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 19-04-06 17:01:53, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> Greetings All.
>>
>> I've found a strange phenomenon associated with capabilities. It seems to be a
>> quantum like.
>>
>> when I run (as root)
>>
>> delfin:~# /usr/sbin/execcap '= cap_net_raw=ep' /bin/sh -c 'getpcaps $$'
>> Capabilities for `2438': =ep cap_setpcap-ep
>>
>> I don't know what really happens to those capablities I zero. And I can't really
>> figure out for when I try the wavefunction collapses
>>
>> delfin:~# strace -o /dev/null /usr/sbin/execcap '= cap_net_raw=ep' /bin/sh -c \
>> 'getpcaps $$'
>> Capabilities for `2461': = cap_net_raw+ep
>>
>> Strange isn't it? Does it mean that processes can't really drop their privileges?
> 
> Is execcap setuid? strace does not work over setuid...

No it's not. And even if it was it sholudn't make any difference when I run
execcap logged in as root.

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>Łukasz<                      Już nie katolicka lecz złodziejska.  (c)PP


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      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-23  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-19 15:01 Lukasz Stelmach
2006-04-20 21:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-23  9:41   ` Lukasz Stelmach [this message]

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