Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751636AbbBDGL3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 01:11:29 -0500 Received: from moth.iki.fi ([212.16.111.74]:57831 "EHLO moth.iki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbbBDGLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 01:11:25 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 366 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:11:24 EST Message-ID: <54D1B693.7060806@moth.iki.fi> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 08:05:07 +0200 From: Markku Savela User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski , Christoph Lameter CC: Casey Schaufler , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Serge Hallyn , Serge Hallyn , Jonathan Corbet , Aaron Jones , "Ted Ts'o" , LSM List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities References: <54CFB9B8.8020701@schaufler-ca.com> <20150202180806.GE24351@ubuntumail> <54CFE3E8.2030402@schaufler-ca.com> <20150203155122.GD2923@mail.hallyn.com> <54D0F94D.3050704@schaufler-ca.com> <20150203172837.GC4748@mail.hallyn.com> <54D10A50.5030707@schaufler-ca.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 530 Lines: 14 Just a note... We had inheritable capabilities in the linux of Nokia N9 phone. If a program needed some capabilities, they had to be requested by the manifest file inside the debian package. Of course, request is only granted if the package origin had permission to grant them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/