On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:51:30PM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is secure. > I'm asking since in my setup I'm running wpa_supplicant as the > 'nobody' user, but I let it keep the NET_ADMIN and NET_RAW > capabilities (excerpt from the .service file): Read the caveat here: https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/README . Basically, you'll need a special user/group for executing /usr/bin/wpa_supplicant. In general, why is this necessary? What kind of attack (besides DoS) is possible against wpa_supplicant? Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
