Travis Willard wrote:
Hey guys,
I just realized that, for some squirrely reason, I am currently
"maintaining" libcap. I have no freakin' clue what libcap even is. I
just got a flag-out-of-date version asking if we should update it to
libcap2, which seems reasonable, as it's nice and shiny-new. Looking
around, however, libcap seems tied to kernel releases, so maybe it'd
make more sense for someone more in-the-know with kernel.org stuff to
take it on?
Version 2.x works pretty fine - I've been using it for a while, but you
will need some simple and straightforward patches for e.g. samba (it
assumes ancient lack of header declarations, should be fixed in .29) and
vsftpd (doesn't look for 2.x at all, but otherwise compiles and works
perfectly fine). From other notable things - ntpd requires linking to
libcap, if you want to run it with privilege separation.
Basically, if someone out there knows WTF libcap is for, and how to
test, etc., then let me know and you can grab it.
In short - it's overbloated suid ;)
http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html
Sorry for crossposting, but I though I'd be good to mention samba /
vsftpd stuff.
Cheers
