Re: Applications using Linux capabilities
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:36:43AM +0100, Alexander Reelsen wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm currently collecting a list of applications which make use of the
> capabilities introduced in Linux 2.2. However this list is quite short and
> I'm wondering whether I am searching wrong or the capabilities aren't
> advocated enough yet or just not used as they're bad or whatever (huge
> "huh?" here from my side).
>
> So if anyone has a application to add to this list, please tell me so.
>
> Incredibly long list of apps:
> - proftpd
> - xntp3 w/patch (just keeps CAP_SYS_TIME, drops uid 0)
Vsftpd does, too.
I'm fairly sure there's a lot more - you can access them through PAM
somehow, I think...
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