Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 May 1999 09:37:12 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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Hi!
> > And anything that requires me to compile anything as a MIS person is > > basically not acceptable. Remember what =users= are? They are the kind of > > people that want to use the system, and not care about the technical > > issues. > > I'll say an amen to that as an administrator - I'd feel a large portion of > the ostensible benefits of capabilities had been lost if I have to compile an > ELF binary anytime I want to modify a program's capabilities.
If you took a look at followups and/or documentation which came with patch, you'd know that it is well possible to set capabilities without recompile. Read http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/elfcap.html.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
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