Re: disable-cap-mlock

[Chris Wright]

* Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Rumour has it that the more exhasperated among us are brewing up a patch to
> login.c which will allow capabilities to be retained after the setuid.  So
> you do
> 
> 	echo "oracle CAP_IPC_LOCK" > /etc/logincap.conf
> 
> And that's it.
> 
> See any reason why this won't work?

Looks ok, and sounds very similar to what pam_cap does.

thanks,
-chris
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