Re: security: introduce file caps

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:12:03 +0100
Chris Friedhoff <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> xinit respects capabilities (at least i guess), so when the system has
> capability-support, the binary /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit neeeds the
> capability cap_kill even when no capability extended attribute exists
> for this binary.
> 
> setfcaps cap_kill=ep /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
> 
> I documented this here:
> http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html#Xorg,%20xinit,%20xfce,%20kde
> 
> and for more:
> http://www.friedhoff.org/fscaps.html
> 

Even when CONFIG_SECURITY_FS_CAPABILITIES=n?
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