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Re: socket-based activation has unmaintainable security?



Quoting Jonathan Dowland (jmtd@debian.org):
> On 6 Feb 2013, at 17:37, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> 
> > Do we finally have mechanisms to start processes without root but with
> > elevated capabilities?
> 
> We also need fallback for non Capability-capable supported kernels
> (wow that's an awkward sentence)

Not to mention non-xattr-backed filesystems.

Every time I've been in a discussion like this, that ends up being
the reason not to pursue it.

-serge


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