security update process failure

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Sep 6 13:02:17 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:57:01AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
>   libcap provides posix capabilities support - fair question would be
> how to get a list of applications which use libcap stuff it provides.
> 
>   rpm -q -l libcap
> 
>  shows these are provided:
> 
> /lib64/libcap.so.2
> /lib64/libcap.so.2.17
> /lib64/security/pam_cap.so
> /usr/sbin/capsh
> /usr/sbin/getcap
> /usr/sbin/getpcaps
> /usr/sbin/setcap
> 
>  One could troll all binaries on the system asking which ones employ
> libcap.so.2 using ldd - and perhaps egrep for calls to getcap and the
> like ...
> 
>  I suspect someone has or has written a tool to catalog these things -
> 
>  anyone?

repoquery --whatrequires libcap

To verify this update, I just ran the setcap and getcap commands and
checked their results.


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