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SubjectRe: Capabilities
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Chris Evans wrote:

> > Filesystems without capabilities will exist for a _long_ time, and
> > people will want to be able to use them for setuid root programs. How
> > about diskless clients mounting their root filesystem over NFS?
>
> Two options: a wrapper, or modify the suid progs to use libcap.
> Neither quite have the elegance of proper fs support though :-/

Or the simpilicity and obvious correctness of a teeny-tiny kernel
patch which does nothing but turn a constant into a sysctl.

Matthew.


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