On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:58:19PM +0200, fvw wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > > It's even easier than that. 2.2.11 and 2.3.12 onwards have a(n almost) > > > monotonic bounding set for many privileged operations which the kernel > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > kernel restricts to root (specifically, the new capability stuff). > > I was talking about an already crack box, and echo 0 is as easy as echo 1 :-) > > That means that you _can't_ decrease the security, only increase it.
Yup, I got see that now. I stand corrected.
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