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credentials
- Jun 24, 2026 Capabilities and the Decomposition of Root Privilege How the single root check was split into distinct capabilities, how the permitted, effective and inheritable sets interact across execve, and why file capabilities and no_new_privs change the rules. operating systems
- May 8, 2024 Credentials on the Wire and Identity Squashing The client asserts who the caller is on every request, and the server decides whether to believe it. That decision is where network filesystems diverge from local permission checking, and where the root account becomes the recurring problem. filesystems