Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo meeting (2010-10-26) NEW TIME!

Joe Nall joe at nall.com
Thu Oct 28 23:28:16 UTC 2010


On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:44:52PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 10/28/2010 01:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> 
>> * #480 F15Feature - RemoveSETUID (
>>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID )  (nirik,
>>  19:15:16)
>>  * AGREED: the feature is approved.  (nirik, 19:26:46)
>> 
>> 
>> This feature is now approved and I see bugs get filed.  The documentation
>> and guidelines are very incomplete.  How does one figure out which file
>> capabilities are needed by the programs I maintain that currently use
>> setuid?  Help, please.
> 
> More to the point, I can easily see the setuid bit easily on a binary.
> 
> How do I tell if these strange/hidden "capabilities" are present on a
> binary?  'ls' doesn't mention anything.

getcap

joe




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