> On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 01:08:52PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> >
> > > This patch changes suser() to capable() in linux/drivers
> > >
> > [SNIPPED]
> > I hope that this won't break everything so nothing will work until
> > everybody completely reconfigures everything to use "capable" et-all.
> >
> > even init won't even be able to mount file-systems until it's modified.
> > I won't be able to use /bin/bash in place of init.
> >
> > Hopefully, this has been well though out. I would not like to have
> > to continue to use the present kernel forever.
>
> Try it. It changes nothing. The only effect is that if you look into
> /proc/self/status you'll see (as root):
>
> [...]
> CapInh: fffffeff
> CapPrm: fffffeff
> CapEff: fffffeff
>
> (the 'e' indicates that root doesn't have the CAP_SETPCAP capability).
>
> And as a normal user:
>
> [...]
> CapInh: fffffeff
> CapPrm: 00000000
> CapEff: 00000000
>
> astor
Very good.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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