On 2021-09-30, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to add NET_ADMIN capability to an executable that needs to > create a tun inteface. AFACIT, this is the command to do that: > > $ sudo setcap cap_net_admin+ep example_app > Failed to set capabilities on file `example_app' (Operation not supported) > > The only possible cause for that message Google has been able fo find > is that the FS doesn't have xattr support.
Is Posix ACL support required for setcap? I can't find any documentation of such a requirement, but it's the only other thing I can think of... -- Grant