Re: Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

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On Friday 31 October 2008 21:41:50 Chris Adams wrote:
> Would it be possible to implement capabilities in a backwards compatible
> fashion?  For example, still have e.g. /bin/ping setuid-root, but also
> have capabilities assigned, and have the capabilities override
> setuid-root (if capabilities are assigned the setuid/setgid bits are
> ignored).

This is an interesting idea. I haven't tested to see which one overrides, but 
I think this would be a good backwards compatible solution. Might take a 
kernel patch to fix, but worth looking into.

Thanks,
-Steve

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