[jira] Closed: (TS-338) Use POSIX capabilities instead of user ID switching.

["Mladen Turk (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-338?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Mladen Turk closed TS-338.
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    Resolution: Fixed

Committed to the trunk. Thanks Alan!

> Use POSIX capabilities instead of user ID switching.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TS-338
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-338
>             Project: Traffic Server
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Security
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Alan M. Carroll
>            Assignee: Mladen Turk
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.1.1
>
>         Attachments: ts-338-trunk-patch.txt
>
>
> Instead of switching the user id around (via seteuid() and the like), use POSIX capabilities to retain the appropriate privileges as a non-root user.
> This will have to be done as an optional feature because while modern Linux kernels are compliant, older kernels may not be and the compliance status of other operating systems (e.g. BSD) is unclear.

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