From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:54036 "EHLO Ishtar.hs.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751391AbaHQUyu (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:54:50 -0400 Message-ID: <53F11687.5060805@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:54:31 -0700 From: Linda Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org CC: Steven Stewart-Gallus Subject: Re: Utilities don't take into account capabilities References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Steven Stewart-Gallus wrote: > The utilities such as mount don't take into account capabilities and always fail > for non root users which is wrong. > > This is really, really, really annoying when working in a sandboxed non root > shell with pseudo capabilities. ---- I was just going to ask what capabilities need to be set for mount to work. Seriously... What capabilities does mount need in order to function? If this is in the 'util-linux', shouldn't these be utilities for linux? I.e. the default linux kernel supports capabilities these days...no?