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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently, I learned of the concept of "Linux capabilities". And yeah, as much as I enjoy reading up on these things, the whole time I was thinking, if something's fucky with these capabilities, I'll never remember to check them...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funfact: if you want to run for example HTTP server, you can run it with CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE and no_new_priv.