Timeline for Does a process run by root always have all of the capabilities available in Linux?
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:47 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @John, yep. But not many systems use capabilities to a large extent, so in that sense it's not too incorrect. Though of course, if you're running, say SELinux, then, again it's possible that root can't do everything. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:41 | vote | accept | John | ||
| Feb 27, 2019 at 5:40 | comment | added | John | I often read in Linux tutorials a statement like this: "The root user can do anything". Can we say that this statement is technically incorrect, and the correct thing to say is that a process that have all of the capabilities available is the one that can do anything (regardless if it is a root process or not)? | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 22:51 | history | answered | ilkkachu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |