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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:08:00PM +0100, 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.

You want the libcap-ng-utils RPMs which provides a bunch of useful tools
for this, filecap, netcap, pscap, etc. See also

  http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/index.html

Regards,
Daniel
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