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John
John

Reputation: 1129

Does a process that have the root user always have all of the capabilities available in Linux?

In Linux, a process that have a non-root user can have some capabilities assigned to it to increase its privileges.

And a process that have the root user have all of the capabilities available, but can such a process have some of its capabilities removed (either manually or automatically in certain situations)?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 174

Answers (1)

OkieOth
OkieOth

Reputation: 3714

I don't think so, because root is allowed to access everything - per os design.

That's the reason why modern Linux distributions often hides the root user and work with the sudo approach instead.

Upvotes: 1

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