Re: Capabilities

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 06:57:42 EST

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Hi!

> > You'll get that when the filesystem support for capabilities goes in.
>
> Filesystems without capabilities will exist for a _long_ time, and
> people will want to be able to use them for setuid root programs. How
> about diskless clients mounting their root filesystem over NFS?

Elfcap (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/elfcap.html) solves
that nicely.
Pavel

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