The utilities such as mount don't take into account capabilities and always fail for non root users which is wrong. This is really, really, really annoying when working in a sandboxed non root shell with pseudo capabilities. One possible solution to my problem is do some complicated checking for capabilities that I don't even know how would work. I believe a better and simpler approach that would work for possible future extensions as well would be to simply drop privileges whenever one is unprivileged and attempt to do the task as normally. If you felt like it, a warning along the lines of "warning: user is unprivileged, attempting mount without privileges" could be made. As a bonus, failed system calls can sometimes leave important diagnostic information in the dmesg. Thank you, Steven Stewart-Gallus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
