CAPs

Casey Schaufler casey at sgi.com
Fri Nov 5 21:53:35 GMT 1999


James Buster wrote:
> 
> On Nov 5,  9:13am, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> } Actually, this is an abomination that was forced on me, kicking and
> } screaming. Its a capability that is basically so hard to use safely it
> } is dangerous.
> 
> IRIX has this, btw. It is very necessary. How else do you set a user's
> initial capability state when they log in, for example?



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