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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:22:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bosko Radivojevic <bole@etf.bg.ac.yu>
To: Stefan Schwandter <swan@shockfrosted.org>
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Subject: Re: Posix capabilities
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Stefan Schwandter wrote:

> I saw capabilities and acl patches for ext2/3 enter -mm. Is it possible
> now to give an executable (that lives on an ext2/ext3 fs) the necessary
> rights to use SCHED_FIFO without being setuid root? Could someone give
> me some pointers for these topics (capabilities support in linux, acl)?

The program needs CAP_SYS_NICE capability. Look at http://www.linsec.org
or http://www.lids.org

Greetings


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