Re: [PATCH]: alternative security - special gids

Augusto Cesar (bishop@sekure.org)
Sun, 30 May 1999 12:46:20 -0300 (EST)


On Sun, 30 May 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> This isn't needed. In kernel 2.2, we already have this functionality via
> capabilities. A program which only needs to bind to a low port socket,
> simply drops all its privs apart from "bind to low socket". It can do this
> as one of its first lines of code.
>

Ow, this is a unknow feature for me, thanks for teching-me, do you know
any source that uses this capabilities, I want to take a look.

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Augusto Cesar
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