On a detour from the setuid X problem, I wanted to play with Linux capabilities. But the simplest possible example from libcap README fails:
root@matica ~ # getcap /bin/ping Failed to get capabilities of file `/bin/ping' (Operation not supported) root@matica ~ # Any idea what could be wrong? It looks like the kernel code is always built in nowadays - there is no kernel build option or loadable module that I might have forgotten. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html