Re: Applications using Linux capabilities
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:14:31 -0900
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:39:03AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >
> > Vsftpd does, too.
>
> i have read GnuPG has code to use a capability to allocate secure
> memory instead of using suid, but its only really useful if you have
> capability bits in the filesystem which niether the kernel nor ext2
> currently supports.
Wrong. GPG uses mlock() to prevent the memory it allocates from being
swapped to disk.
Regards,
Alex.
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