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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] capabilities
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 20:22:36
Message-Id: 20161217201730.9642.0F28DB3E@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
1 On a detour from the setuid X problem, I wanted to play with Linux
2 capabilities. But the simplest possible example from libcap README
3 fails:
4
5 root@matica ~ # getcap /bin/ping
6 Failed to get capabilities of file `/bin/ping' (Operation not supported)
7 root@matica ~ #
8
9 Any idea what could be wrong? It looks like the kernel code is always
10 built in nowadays - there is no kernel build option or loadable module
11 that I might have forgotten.
12
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Re: [gentoo-user] capabilities Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] capabilities David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>