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reminder: "POSIX capabilities" are different from "capabilities"

reminder: "POSIX capabilities" are different from "capabilities"

Posted May 13, 2004 23:44 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (guest, #1535)
In reply to: reminder: "POSIX capabilities" are different from "capabilities" by rjw
Parent article: Magic groups in 2.6

We should also be careful to separate the concept of a physical user from a unix uid. Users should have the ability to create subservient users and groups - that are bounded by the permission set that their 'principal' user has.

Oh man, I wish someone had done this. Now that we have SELinux et al, it's not likely to happen.

SELinux really makes me sick.

*rech*


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