Re: [RFC] capabilities: Ambient capabilities

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> >> That's sort of what my patch does -- you need CAP_SETPCAP to switch
> >> the securebit.
> >>
> >> But Christoph's patch required it to add caps to the ambient set, right?
> >
> > Yes but you seem to be just adding one additional step without too much of
> > a benefit because you still need CAP_SETPCAP.
> >
> 
> No, because I set the default to on :)

Right - I definately prefer

. default off
. CAP_SETPCAP required to turn it on (for self and children)
. once on, anyone can copy bits from (whatever we decided) to pA.

> Also, in my model you can do:
> 
> $ sudo capset cap_whatever=eip something
> $ ./something
> 
> and the program can make its cap be ambient and run a helper.  In the
> CAP_SETPCAP model, that doesn't work.
> 
> --Andy
> 
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> Andy Lutomirski
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