Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 09:00:28PM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > >> What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? > > > > I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is > > secure. > > well, also, unless you set capabilities on the executable

Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? > > I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is > secure. well, also, unless you set capabilities on the executable a process can't have capabilities when a non-root process execs the executable

Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:51:30PM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is secure. > I'm asking since in my setup I'm running wpa_supplicant as the > 'nobody'