Re: [PATCH 1/3] switch_creds: Syscall to switch creds for fileserver ops

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:18:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That doesn't look bad but it does need capable(CAP_SETUID) &&
> capable(CAP_SETGID) or possibly something a little more refined.

D'oh

> I don't think we want file descriptor passing to all of a sudden become
> a grant of privilege, beyond what the passed fd can do.

Definitely.  And an extra ) to make it compile wouldn't hurt either...
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