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Subject:    Re: [lids] info on meanings of capabilities?
From:       Austin Gonyou <austin () coremetrics ! com>
Date:       2001-02-26 19:56:21
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I'm writing a LIDS + SUDO howto, it will cover this information as well.

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@coremetrics.com

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Lynn Winebarger wrote:

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>    Wondering if anyone has (preferably online) references for the meanings
> of the various capabilities.  For example, the explanation that
> "CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE" allows overriding of DACs is fairly meaningless if you
> don't know what a DAC is (or what it specifically refers to in a
> particular case).  Of course, the POSIX standards would probably be the
> place to look, but I don't have those.
>    In the meantime, I finally got a reasonably functional Linux system
> (built entirely from sources) installed.  I'm getting a LIDS error when I
> try to login as a regular user but not when I login as root (the
> "CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE" error above.  This seems strange since I set security=0
> at the bootprompt (shouldn't this turn all of these errors off?).
>
> Lynn
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