Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Panu Matilainen wrote, at 10/29/2008 07:37 PM +9:00:
> 
> Hate to interrupt the tty1 vs tty7 debate but...
> 
> We have kernel support for storing capabilities on filesystem since 
> 2.6.24 and recent libcap, both in F9 already. I just committed file 
> capability support to rpm.org HEAD, filling in the final(?) missing 
> piece. Capability support is not going to be in rpm 4.6.0 but no reason 
> they can't be pulled into 4.6.1 which is easily in F11 timeframe.
> 
> Are we ready to start considering moving away from SUID bits to 
> capabilities, in Fedora 11 maybe?
> 

For reference, one of them problems we met is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455713

Regards,
Mamoru