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A bid to resurrect Linux capabilities

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:58 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: A bid to resurrect Linux capabilities by jschrod
Parent article: A bid to resurrect Linux capabilities

I was thinking that it's rare compared to the number of programs installed
in /usr/bin: but then if the user's compiled a program herself she's a lot
more likely to run it than a given random binary in /usr/bin...

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Posted Sep 14, 2006 22:13 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

...in which case a "default per-mount permitted capabilities" sounds useful.