> > And anything that requires me to compile anything as a MIS person is
> > basically not acceptable. Remember what =users= are? They are the kind of
> > people that want to use the system, and not care about the technical
> > issues.
>
> I'll say an amen to that as an administrator - I'd feel a large portion of
> the ostensible benefits of capabilities had been lost if I have to compile an
> ELF binary anytime I want to modify a program's capabilities.
If you took a look at followups and/or documentation which came with
patch, you'd know that it is well possible to set capabilities without
recompile. Read http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/elfcap.html.
Pavel
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