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But CAP_SETUID, unless I'm confusing it with something else, can be used to set the UID to 0 and thereby gain all the same privileges as if the program had been started as root, can't it? Presumably it has some advantage that I'm not getting – does it have to be combined with e.g. SELinux to be useful?



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