On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 04:01:24PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I'll have to re-test that. Again, this occurred during a FAI
> installation, that is an automated installation.

Thanks. In the meantime, I've submitted 815566 against libcap2-bin
requesting that it be raised to Priority: important to match iputils and
systemd, which is the right solution hered.

> I would still highly discourage from using setuid anymore anyway
> for the well-known security issues it has [1]. I mean, setuid is
> one of the main reason capabilities were introduced to the Linux
> kernel in the first place.

As long as it's possible for Debian systems to work on kernels that
don't support capabilities, I want to keep the suid fallback in place,
especially if it's only actually used under custom configurations.

noah

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