Re: [PATCH 1/3] capabilities: user namespace capabilities

"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Fri, 17 May 2024 06:32:46 -0500
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Jonathan Calmels <[email protected]> writes:

> Attackers often rely on user namespaces to get elevated (yet confined)
> privileges in order to target specific subsystems (e.g. [1]). Distributions
> have been pretty adamant that they need a way to configure these, most of
> them carry out-of-tree patches to do so, or plainly refuse to enable
> them.

Pointers please?

That sentence sounds about 5 years out of date.

Eric