Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
03 Nov 2002 10:59:00 +0200


hacksaw@hacksaw.org (Hacksaw) wrote on 03.11.02 in <200211030736.gA37a2lv007213@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com>:

> As a sys-admin I love the idea of the capabilities, but I hate this mount
> --bind thing. I'd really rather see it have its own command name. If it were
> strictly something that happens at mount time for a filesystem that'd be one
> thing, but
>
> >mount --bind --capability=xx,yy /usr/bin/foo /usr/bin/foo
>
> looks like a mistake.
>
> If you were loop mounting the binary into the user's directory, then I could
> see using mount.
>
> This would be clearer:
>
> setcap -c xx,yy /usr/bin/foo
>
> (I also have nothing against long option names.)

As a sysadmin, this should be about 20 seconds with your favourite editor
to create a "setcap" shell script.

MfG Kai
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