Hello Christian, On 01/13/2015 07:12 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Dear Maintainers, > > I have found a small typo in capabilities(7). As per instructions[1], > I'm reporting it directly via email. > > Under the capability CAP_SYS_ADMIN it says that you need it if you > want to > > 'forge UID when passing socket credentials;' > > This should read instead: > > 'forge PID when passing socket credentials;' > > Rationale: > > UID/GID are governed by CAP_SET[UG]ID instead (which is already > correctly mentioned in the man page), only PID requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. > > The check in the kernel source can be found in: > <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/core/scm.c#n47> > > Thanks! > > Christian > > [1] <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html> Thanks for the very complete report! Yes, the page needs fixing, and I've done that. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
