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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] fcaps.eclass: bringing filesystem capabilities to the tree
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:02:26
Message-Id: 51040C10.6050407@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] fcaps.eclass: bringing filesystem capabilities to the tree by Rich Freeman
1 On 26/01/2013 17:13, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > I naively assumed that if you edit /etc/security/capability.conf this
3 > would set the per-user capabilities. However, I have not actually
4 > tried this. I guess our pam configuration/etc isn't set to check this
5 > file?
6
7 pambase is not enabling pam_caps, so the file is ignored, at least for
8 what I last knew.
9
10 pambase needs to be restructured, but as I said before it's a task that
11 for me is a PITA as I don't really use much about it, and it takes a lot
12 of time and work to set up properly.
13
14 I've been open for a while to be hired by somebody who has needs for a
15 more precise PAM configuration in Gentoo, but no dice there.
16
17 --
18 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
19 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/