Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 29 12:08:02 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:37 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Hate to interrupt the tty1 vs tty7 debate but...
>
> We have kernel support for storing capabilities on filesystem since 2.6.24
> and recent libcap, both in F9 already. I just committed file capability
> support to rpm.org HEAD, filling in the final(?) missing piece.
> Capability support is not going to be in rpm 4.6.0 but no reason they
> can't be pulled into 4.6.1 which is easily in F11 timeframe.
>
> Are we ready to start considering moving away from SUID bits to
> capabilities, in Fedora 11 maybe?
How does that mesh with networked file systems (nfs, samba)?
-sv
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