Re: Utilities don't take into account capabilities

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Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote:
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.
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I was just going to ask what capabilities need to be set for mount to work.

Seriously... What capabilities does mount need in order to function?


If this is in the 'util-linux', shouldn't these be utilities for linux? I.e.
the default linux kernel supports capabilities these days...no?



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