From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: typo in capabilities(7) man page Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:14:44 +0100 Message-ID: <54B8BA64.2040400@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Christian Seiler Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Christian, On 01/13/2015 07:12 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Dear Maintainers, > > I have found a small typo in capabilities(7). As per instructions[1], > I'm reporting it directly via email. > > Under the capability CAP_SYS_ADMIN it says that you need it if you > want to > > 'forge UID when passing socket credentials;' > > This should read instead: > > 'forge PID when passing socket credentials;' > > Rationale: > > UID/GID are governed by CAP_SET[UG]ID instead (which is already > correctly mentioned in the man page), only PID requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. > > The check in the kernel source can be found in: > > > Thanks! > > Christian > > [1] Thanks for the very complete report! Yes, the page needs fixing, and I've done that. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html