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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <sergeh@us.ibm.com>
To: Chris Friedhoff <chris@friedhoff.org>
Cc: Serge E Hallyn <sergeh@us.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Posix file capabilities in 2.6.24rc2
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:53:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113235318.GA6477@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113230720.22c6a036.chris@friedhoff.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 22:07 Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-13 23:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2007-11-14  9:12   ` Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-14 18:02     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-11-15 22:02       ` Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-19 13:39         ` Posix file capabilities in 2.6.24rc2; now 2.6.24-rc3 Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-19 23:16           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-11-20  9:46             ` Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-20 14:51               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-11-20 22:29                 ` Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-20 22:51                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-11-21  0:50                     ` Chris Friedhoff
2007-11-22  7:42                 ` Andrew Morgan

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