Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1
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- Christoph Lameter <hidden>
- Date
- 2015-02-23 16:41:57
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- Andy Lutomirski, 2015-02-23
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
If you set ambient caps and then run a setuid program (without no_new_privs), then the ambient set *must* be cleared by the kernel because that's what the setuid program expects. Yes, the whole
Why would a setuid program expect that? I'd say we expect the ambient set
to remain in effect. What would break if the ambient set would stay
active?