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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:10:53 -0800
From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
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CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits
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Ismail Dönmez wrote:
| What I meant to ask was what does "per-process securebits" brings as
extra.

It allows you to create a legacy free process tree. For example, a
chroot, or container (which Serge can obviously explain in more detail),
environment in which root has no privilege at all. One in which
privilege comes only from filesystem capabilities.

| FWIW in Pardus 2008 we'll enable Posix file capabilities by default so
people
| could "harden" their setups.

Cheers

Andrew
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