kernel - Add per-process capability-based restrictions* This new system allows userland to set capability restrictions which turns off numerous kernel features and root accesses. These restricti
kernel - Add per-process capability-based restrictions* This new system allows userland to set capability restrictions which turns off numerous kernel features and root accesses. These restrictions are inherited by sub-processes recursively. Once set, restrictions cannot be removed. Basic restrictions that mimic an unadorned jail can be enabled without creating a jail, but generally speaking real security also requires creating a chrooted filesystem topology, and a jail is still needed to really segregate processes from each other. If you do so, however, you can (for example) disable mount/umount and most global root-only features.* Add new system calls and a manual page for syscap_get(2) and syscap_set(2)* Add sys/caps.h* Add the "setcaps" userland utility and manual page.* Remove priv.9 and the priv_check infrastructure, replacing it with a newly designed caps infrastructure.* The intention is to add path restriction lists and similar features to improve jailess security in the near future, and to optimize the priv_check code.
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