The Savannah Compromise - what really happened? [LWN.net]

The Savannah Compromise - what really happened?

Posted Jan 4, 2004 6:43 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The Savannah Compromise - what really happened? by spotter
Parent article: The Savannah Compromise - what really happened?

What I wished for was that chroot() would be considered a capability and
that it could be disabled. In fact, capabilities in Linux aren't very
useful because they can only restrict actions that are already reserved
for the superuser. So I can't, for example, say that this process and its
children can't call ptrace(), chroot(), etc.

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