Re: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2

From: Chris Wright
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 12:51:34 EST


* Albert Cahalan (albert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> This would be an excellent time to reconsider how capabilities
> are assigned to bits. You're breaking things anyway; you might
> as well do all the breaking at once. I want local-use bits so
> that the print queue management access isn't by magic UID/GID.
> We haven't escaped UID-as-priv if server apps and setuid apps
> are still making UID-based access control decisions.

This is too volatile in stable series.

thanks,
-chris
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