Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761139AbXKMXx2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758133AbXKMXxT (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:19 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:41388 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755374AbXKMXxS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:53:18 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Chris Friedhoff Cc: Serge E Hallyn , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Posix file capabilities in 2.6.24rc2 Message-ID: <20071113235318.GA6477@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <20071113230720.22c6a036.chris@friedhoff.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113230720.22c6a036.chris@friedhoff.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 846 Lines: 26 Quoting Chris Friedhoff (chris@friedhoff.org): > Hello, > > everything works as expected, but ... > > closing X and no capabilities set for xinit does shutdown only the > windowmanager and not the X server (Xorg server 1.4) > Consolemessage is: > xinit: Operation not permitted (errno 1): Can't kill X server > > > the xattr capability is removed, when the file is chown'ed. Hi Chris, yes on chown the capability is removed. I'm not quite sure what you're asking? Is your setup depending on being able to chown while keeping file capabilities? Can you give some more details? thanks, -serge - 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/