Re: Capabilities bug(s) / implementation inconsistencies

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 20:15:45 EDT

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> /* Clear the capabilities if we switch to a non-root user */
> if (current->uid)
> cap_clear(current->cap_effective);
> else
> current->cap_effective = current->cap_permitted;

This is a bug. We now have capability flags to indicate 'capability aware'
applications and these should be getting checked as they now do in
setuid and friends

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