On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 01:16:21 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Anthony G. Basile > <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > A couple of days ago, bonsaikitten (Patrick), kerframil (Kerin > > Millar) and myself were talking about other distros moving away > > from setuid binaries towards caps. Openwall and Fedora are now > > setuid-less [1]. Some googling showed that Constanze has done quite > > a bit of work in the area and that there was a consensus to include > > functions to set caps within portage [2]. I don't know what, if > > anything has been done since then, but I'd like to lend my support. > > > > One problem that came up was that a lot of people use tmpfs for > /var/tmp/portage, and tmpfs doesn't support xattrs which are needed > for setting caps. Will packages always explicitly set caps themselves or will sometimes upstream do that for us? IOW, will we have total control over actual caps? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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