--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think that the current behaviour of capability > inheritance across exec() > is not optimal. > > The current behaviour consists in all effective and > permitted capabilities > are cleared across a exec(). This is because it > seems to be intended that > in the future the executable files have a set of > "allowed" and "forced" > capabilities.
File based capabilities are the same effective, permitted, and inheritable sets that the process has. Unless the thinking has shifted over the last couple weeks (it happens from time to time) the inheritable set is what you're missing. Casey Schaufler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
