Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 15:13:34 Dax Kelson wrote:
> > We tried to support this in F-10 by having a test run with ping. We
> > figured that is a simple well defined app that could be used as a test
> > subject. We opened bz 455713 to document the change over. Turns out that
> > people compile their own kernels and do not necessarily turn this on. So,
> > what do we do in that case?
>
> Modify ping to work in either scenario. 

Its not a ping issue, its an installation issue. :)   I can either chmod 4755 
or capset cap_net_raw=ep  during the installation. Upstream is not involved 
in this.

-Steve