On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Michal Soltys <soltys@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 just got a flag-out-of-date version asking if we should update it to 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. No problemo - thanks for the insight. Now I know WTF it is for. :D
