"Capabilities are—at least in theory—a nice idea: divide the privileges of root into small pieces so that a process can be granted just enough power to perform specific privileged tasks. "

"The key point from the beginning of this article is small pieces, and it's here that the Linux capabilities implementation has gone astray."

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CAP_SYS_ADMIN: the new root

Capabilities are—at least in theory—a nice idea: divide the privileges of root (use [...]

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