Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:05:26 +0200 | From | Stefan Schwandter <> | Subject | Re: Posix capabilities |
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Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > I saw capabilities and acl patches for ext2/3 enter -mm. Is it possible > > now to give an executable (that lives on an ext2/ext3 fs) the necessary > > rights to use SCHED_FIFO without being setuid root? Could someone give > > me some pointers for these topics (capabilities support in linux, acl)?
> The patchs which I've been working on do not support capabilities; > just extended attributes.
Ah, ok... I thought that things work like this: the capabilities support already is in the kernel, and to give an app a particular capability, one has to add a particalar extended attribute to the application executable. So I'm wrong here it seems?
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