Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:18:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@gmail.com>,
        "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org,
        morgan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set
 of capabilities
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> We've currently got two proposals.  (Three includig yours;  but I explained my
> problem with yours earlier this morning -  do appreciate the proposal and
> the patch though, really, thanks)  It's worth digging into the details of
> each, but if they end up complicating things then perhaps "dropping
> capabilities and going with something new" ought to be another proposal.

Ok that is about the binding to a person and executable?

So you think there should be a cap_inheritable mask settable in the caps
of each file.

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