Re: capwrap: granting capabilities without fs support

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 12:24:42 EST


* Andy Lutomirski (luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> When I have time (hopefully real soon now), I'll post a patch to actually fix
> capabilities. With that patch, this can be a trivial wrapper script instead of
> a kernel module. Note that this could be _very_ dangerous if glibc does the
> wrong thing (I don't know whether it does, though).

I agree, between my patch or Andy's patch, it makes more sense to fix
capabilities to be more useable, rather than add this new module.

thanks,
-chris
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