Control: retitle -1 Misleading documentation about NoNewPrivileges and UID changes Control: tag -1 + upstream
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt wrote (31 Jul 2014 09:53:21 GMT) : > It works as intended, but the documentation might be a bit misleading. > NoNewPrivileges only affects the exec syscall which will no longer grant > any new privileges, including no longer switching uid for suid binaries. > It does *not* take away the CAP_SETUID or any other capabilities the > process already has. Thanks a lot! I'll report a bug upstream (possibly with a patch) wrt. the documentation being a bit misleading, then. Cheers, -- intrigeri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

