On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:17 +0100, Sebastian Harl wrote: [...] > > > Would it be fine to do that in postinst? > > > > It must be done in postinst, and you may need to fall back to setuid if > > the filesystem does not support setcap. > > Do you know of a way to find out if the filesystem supports setcap > (other than trying out ;-))? No, I don't think there's a way to do that programmatically. You would just have to try capset and then chmod u+s. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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