Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday, 25 September 2008 3:02:33 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Chris Wright (chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > What is being done to enable userspace in distros to make those 570
> > bytes generally useful?
>
> Fedora 9 and ubuntu intrepid already have full capabilities support and
> modern libcap.  Sles is set to ship with a modern libcap, and according
> to what Andreas is saying, if we can provide them with the no_file_caps
> boot option then suse is willing to have a kernel with capabilities
> turned on.

Yes.

> I think gentoo still comes with libcap-1.  Need to look into 
> changing that.
>
> I suppose the next baby-step will be to do get rid of setuid on little
> things like ping.

Real file capability support in RPM seems important to me; hacking this 
into %post scripts is not a reasonable approach.

Thanks,
Andreas
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