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Re: Bits from the Security Team



* Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net>, 2014-03-07, 15:25:
But I think capabilities are a safer solution than s-bit.

Maybe, maybe not. Many capabilities, including CAP_SYS_PTRACE, can be easily elevated to full root.

Adding capabilities to software that wasn't specifically designed to deal with them is a bad idea.

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Jakub Wilk


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