Re: [RFC] Capabilities still can't be inherited by normal programs

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Write a daemon.  Rig up wrappers for each setuid program to instead
> call into that daemon and have that daemon invoke the privileged
> program on behalf of the caller, with a sanitized environment.  Be
> annoyed by a few items on the "linux plumber's wish list" that make
> this rather difficult right now.

FWIW, this is something we'd like to do in Chrome OS. Dealing with
fs-attrs has traditionally been a pain, so this kind of simple passing
down of privilege would be much nicer. It means we'd have a
programmatic way to decide what privs a helper has, rather than having
to represent it in some way on-disk.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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