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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:03:51
Message-Id: 517AB352.2020708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root by Joerg Schilling
1 Joerg Schilling schrieb am 26.04.2013 18:18:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > since Linux-2.6.24, fcaps support is part of the vanilla kernel.
5 > If you also add "libcap" user and developer support and the commands
6 > "getcap" and "setcap", you will be able to install working versions for:
7 >
8 > cdrecord, cdda2wav, readcd
9 >
10 > without making them suid-root.
11 >
12 > This works with cdrtools-3.01a14 or later. Check
13 >
14 > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
15 >
16 > for the sources.
17 >
18 > Happy hacking!
19 >
20 > Jörg
21 >
22
23 Thanks Jörg,
24
25 I have read the release notes for alpha14 and prepared an ebuild
26 which automatically applies the required capabilities if the filecaps
27 USE flag is set.
28
29 Is there any chance to make this a configurable option, so it is
30 possible to disable file capabilities even if libcap is installed?
31
32 --
33 Regards
34 Daniel Pielmeier

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