Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:45:07 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: disable-cap-mlock |
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Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > > just curious, how does this work through 'su'? Does su check > > > logincap.conf too? > > > > I guess so. > > Or let pam_cap do it so you don't have to modify all the apps just the pam > confs.
Well the message I'm receiving is that the userspace capability infrastructure is a decrepit mess which nobody is fixing or maintaining.
Certainly, if we could arrange for pam_cap to be fixed and proselytized that would be even better than bolting new workalike code into login and su.
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