Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:47:43 -0600 | From | "Bill O'Donnell" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] security: introduce fs caps |
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Chris Friedhoff wrote: | On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:06:34 -0600 | "Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@sgi.com> wrote: | | - snip - | > | Probably, Bill didn't update libcap.so. | > No, I didn't... | > certify:~/libcap-1.10/progs # ls -altr /lib/libcap* | > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22672 2006-06-16 09:56 /lib/libcap.so.1.92 | > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53363 2006-11-13 16:04 /lib/libcap.so.1.10 | > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-11-13 16:04 /lib/libcap.so.1 ->libcap.so.1.92 | > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-11-13 16:04 /lib/libcap.so -> libcap.so.1 | > | | Why is SLES10 using libcap-1.92? | (googling brought this page: | http://www.me.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/old/kernel-2.3/)
Good quesion. My gentoo ia32 machine uses libcap.so.1.10. Probably a FAQ, but is 1.92 actually older than 1.10?
| | > | | > | But I can't recommend Bill to update libcap immediately. | > | As Hawk Xu said, it may cause a serious problem on the distro | > | except Fedora Core 6. :( | > | > What version of libcap is on FC6? | > | | Are there newer libcap versions then libcap-1.10 available? | (http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.4/)
| | > | | > | I have to recommend to use 'fscaps-1.0-kg.i386.rpm' now. | > | It includes the implementation of interaction between application and xattr. | > | (Of couse, it's one of the features which should be provided by libcap.) | > | > But that won't work on ia64 will it? | | Kaigai also provides a srpm package to compile. | VFS Capability Support -> fscaps version 1.0 [SRPM] | (http://www.kaigai.gr.jp/pub/fscaps-1.0-kg.src.rpm)
I'll try that next.
Thanks, Bill
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