Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 08:58:46 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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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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