Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 18 May 1999 05:51:06 +0100


On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:20:36AM -0700, Y2K wrote:

> after something like ext3 with caps support is made.
> when bash has new builtins to manipulate its runnings caps.
> when someone runs swig on libcap for perl and python.
> When all the daemons have been cap-enhanced, etc.
> When all the useradmin tools have been cap-enhanced.

I got a bit lost in this whole caps / privs stuff, but: is there a "standard"
for this stuff, and if so, are we conforming to it? If not, perhaps it would
be worth talking to the *BSD people at least, to see if we can establish a
standard for it, at least in the free / open source world..

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