Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 18 May 1999 08:23:50 -0400


Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> said:
> Linus Torvalds on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:41:16PM -0700 said:
> > > You want to allow shellscripts with special powers?!?!?

> > I may want to _strip_ shellscripts of power.

> Ok, that's legitimate. In such case , we'll have to modify shell to
> understand something like --drop, so that beggining of shell would
> look like
>
> #!/bin/bash --drop NET_BIND_SERVICE

Great. Now the default shell is all-powerful.

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