Re: disable-cap-mlock

[Andrew Morton]

Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > just curious, how does this work through 'su'? Does su check
> > > logincap.conf too?
> > 
> > I guess so.
> 
> Or let pam_cap do it so you don't have to modify all the apps just the pam
> confs.

Well the message I'm receiving is that the userspace capability
infrastructure is a decrepit mess which nobody is fixing or maintaining.

Certainly, if we could arrange for pam_cap to be fixed and proselytized
that would be even better than bolting new workalike code into login and
su.

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