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Paul de Vrieze posted <200407051601.37679.pauldv@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:01:37 +0200: |
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> On Monday 05 July 2004 15:52, Jeffrey Forman wrote: |
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>> Paul, |
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>> Like a grep of the kernel config? I'm not quite sure where to check for |
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>> linux capabilities. I'm still trying to wrap my head around exactly |
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>> what 'linux capabilities' do. If the user is emerging something, |
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>> obviously they are running Gentoo linux. |
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> You could just try to use "uname -s" and disable caps if it does not |
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> return Linux (or the command does not exist) |
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That's not a sufficient test. Mainline 2.6 kernels have standard Linux |
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security capabilities broken out into their own module, now. Thus, it can |
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be compiled in as traditional, compiled as a module (my configuration, |
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with it specifically loaded at boot, since the kernel isn't smart enough |
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to auto-load it on its own, yet), or compiled out altogether. |
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Since it's now optional, simply testing for Linux won't work. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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