On 08/29/2012 03:16 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On 8/29/12 3:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Tom Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I made an updated package (1.6.1) that has these fixes applied and sets
>>> the CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG capability to the dfbinfo binary. (Other DirectFB
>>> binaries probably need the same magic, but as I am not a DirectFB user,
>>> I can't really say which ones.)
>>
>> Per http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2522 , giving the
>> program CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG is basically equivalent to making it
>> setuid-root.  Was the code designed to be run in such a risky setup?
> 
> Capabilities: still useless.

Unsure. That is the reason it was failing, though. Seems like it
wouldn't be a good idea to enable CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG by default though.

~tom

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