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Commit f54fb863 authored by Serge Hallyn's avatar Serge Hallyn Committed by Eric W. Biederman
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capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged



We allow task A to change B's nice level if it has a supserset of
B's privileges, or of it has CAP_SYS_NICE.  Also allow it if A has
CAP_SYS_NICE with respect to B - meaning it is root in the same
namespace, or it created B's namespace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent 6e556ce2
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