Re: why are capabilities disabled?

[Sven Köhler]

> > "getpcaps 1" shows, that the init-process is started without 
> > cap_setpcap, and i know that i can change that somehow.
> > So why are capabilities disabled? and how do i enable them?

i found the hint again: i have to change the value CAP_INIT_EFF_SET in 
capability.h, so that init-process is not started with disabled 
cap_setpcap, but is this still a security risk?

> There was a long thread back in October 2003 labeled:
> Subject: Re: posix capabilities inheritance
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106673587410831&w=2

everybody's talking about filesystem-capabilities etc.
i still dream of starting a process with a certain capability.
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