On 04/08/2010 10:49 PM, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 04:47:22 pm Radek Vokál wrote: >> I need few suggestions about this .. >> https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/02/running-wireshark-as-you/ .. Gerald >> Combs, the upstream maintainer of wireshark, suggests to use >> capabilities instead of consolehelper+root privileges for >> dumpcap/wireshark. It makes whole lot of sense, so I've looked if other >> apps in Fedora are already using it and I haven't found any. Honestly >> I'm not sure about right way to use them. The idea is to add something >> like following to %post >> >> # groupadd -g wireshark >> # chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap >> # setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap >> # setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/tshark >> >> Suggestions? Ideas? Spec file patches? > > rpm supposedly has native support for capabilities. That would mean that you > don't need to call setcap. > > -Steve > Are there any docs for that? I haven't found any so far. Radek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
