On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm puzzled by something i just tripped over on my fully-updated f31 > system ... while mucking around with some networking, i happened to > run: > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping > > and was surprised to see it rendered in the colour scheme (yellow > letters on red background) normally reserved for setuid executables. i > looked closer but saw nothing amiss: > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 83136 Jul 25 13:28 /usr/bin/ping > $ > > running "lsattr" on that executable didn't seem to show anything > unusual, and all of the other executables under /usr/bin that are > rendered in that colour scheme are, indeed, setuid. am i > misunderstanding something really trivial? oh, wait, this is a capabilities thing, isn't it? rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
