capable()-function

From: Tony Glader (Tony.Glader@blueberrysolutions.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 02:51:50 EST

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Hi!

I was investigating problems with PCMCIA and found that
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) returns always false in my case. If I'm calling
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) as root - shouldn't it return true? What could
cause this? I'm using RH 8.0 and src-rpm of 2.4.18-14 kernel.

-- * Tony Glader

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