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SubjectRe: Posix capabilities
Hi!

> > 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?
>
> First of all, you can't use a standard user extended attribute, since
> anyone with write access to the file will be allowed to set the
> extended attribute. This isn't good if you're going to be granting

What are extended attributes good for, then?
Pavel
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