Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:04:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:03:57 -0400 Received: from stud3.tuwien.ac.at ([193.170.75.13]:5575 "EHLO stud3.tuwien.ac.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:59:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:05:26 +0200 From: Stefan Schwandter To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: Posix capabilities Message-ID: <20021017120526.GC6014@TK150122.tuwien.teleweb.at> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o References: <20021016154459.GA982@TK150122.tuwien.teleweb.at> <20021017032619.GA11954@think.thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021017032619.GA11954@think.thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 974 Lines: 24 Theodore Ts'o 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 patchs which I've been working on do not support capabilities; > just extended attributes. Ah, ok... I thought that things work like this: the capabilities support already is in the kernel, and to give an app a particular capability, one has to add a particalar extended attribute to the application executable. So I'm wrong here it seems? regards, Stefan -- ----> http://www.shockfrosted.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/