From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?
Date: 03 Nov 2002 10:59:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8$A6Ivu1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211030736.gA37a2lv007213@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com>
hacksaw@hacksaw.org (Hacksaw) wrote on 03.11.02 in <200211030736.gA37a2lv007213@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com>:
> As a sys-admin I love the idea of the capabilities, but I hate this mount
> --bind thing. I'd really rather see it have its own command name. If it were
> strictly something that happens at mount time for a filesystem that'd be one
> thing, but
>
> >mount --bind --capability=xx,yy /usr/bin/foo /usr/bin/foo
>
> looks like a mistake.
>
> If you were loop mounting the binary into the user's directory, then I could
> see using mount.
>
> This would be clearer:
>
> setcap -c xx,yy /usr/bin/foo
>
> (I also have nothing against long option names.)
As a sysadmin, this should be about 20 seconds with your favourite editor
to create a "setcap" shell script.
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-03 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-01 8:49 Rusty's Remarkably Unreliable List of Pending 2.6 Features Rusty Russell
2002-11-01 16:19 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-11-02 6:32 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-01 18:32 ` Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? Dax Kelson
2002-11-01 19:05 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-11-01 22:07 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-01 23:25 ` Jan Harkes
2002-11-04 17:51 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-11-01 22:07 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-01 22:59 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-02 13:41 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-02 7:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-02 13:38 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-02 18:18 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-02 22:57 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-02 18:35 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-06 1:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-02 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-02 23:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-02 23:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-11-03 0:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-03 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 0:43 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 0:52 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-04 13:02 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-03 0:47 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-03 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 1:05 ` David D. Hagood
2002-11-03 2:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 13:55 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-05 8:47 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-11-05 10:50 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-03 1:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 2:43 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-03 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 0:56 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 2:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 2:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 3:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 4:28 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 14:51 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 16:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 16:56 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 16:56 ` yodaiken
2002-11-03 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 18:25 ` yodaiken
2002-11-03 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-04 0:40 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-03 7:36 ` Hacksaw
2002-11-03 8:59 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2002-11-03 10:50 ` Hacksaw
2002-11-04 8:55 ` Rando Christensen
2002-11-03 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 15:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-03 16:30 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2002-11-03 16:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-03 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 20:11 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-10 22:50 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-03 13:55 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 3:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-11-03 4:00 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 4:10 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-11-03 13:55 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 4:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 5:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 5:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 6:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 7:16 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 9:18 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 20:35 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-11-04 9:25 ` Antti Salmela
2002-11-04 12:24 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-04 14:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-04 15:13 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-11-03 5:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-11-03 5:25 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 5:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-03 6:46 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 12:53 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 13:52 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 14:38 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 16:01 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 16:09 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 12:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 21:02 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-11-03 3:36 ` [REPORT] current use of capabilities Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 13:57 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-05 12:14 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-11-03 4:04 ` Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 4:10 ` Alexander Viro
2002-11-03 5:31 ` Erik Andersen
2002-11-03 5:37 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 5:42 ` Erik Andersen
2002-11-03 6:07 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-03 22:24 ` Anders Gustafsson
2002-11-03 15:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-03 12:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-03 15:49 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-04 15:00 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-04 15:51 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-04 16:53 ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-11-04 17:23 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 13:30 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-03 15:11 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-11-04 2:49 ` Jan Harkes
2002-11-04 14:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-11-04 15:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-04 20:35 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-11-04 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-04 14:58 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-11-05 23:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-06 13:36 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-11-05 4:14 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-11-05 14:48 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-11-05 15:05 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-03 0:31 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-03 3:15 ` john slee
2002-11-06 0:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-11-05 0:11 Tom Reinhart
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