Re: File capabilities are not 'working' and I have no idea why

[Aaron Jones]

On 26/01/14 16:22, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Hm, I'm running Ubuntu 3.13.0-5-generic and I do get
>
> serge@tp:~/test$ ./caps
> Effective capabilities:
> net_bind_service
> Permitted capabilities:
> net_bind_service
>
> Any chance (grasping for straws here) that the hardening patches
> are interfering?  Can you try hand-building an upstream kernel to
> test with?

I downloaded a vanilla 3.12.8 tree directly from kernel.org
for the purposes of my previous post. I was running that kernel
then... I also have the same problem with the hardened kernel now.

I'm at a loss as to why it doesn't work on 3.12.8, but it does on
3.10.7, hardening patches or not.


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