On 12/22/2011 03:33 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
When I do:
ls /bin/ping
I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see
anything special about its permissions. What's up?
Fedora switched[1] from using the suid-bit to capabilities. If you
wish to see capabilities you can run "getcap" on the file.
$ getcap /bin/ping
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID
Thanks. I did eventually figure this out. Unfortunately, there doesn't
seem to be much documentation about this particular set of colors,
though it is reminiscent of what happens with e.g. mount and umount.
Richard
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