Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/03/07 12:39 CST:
> vsftpd can use the library libcap (see vsf_findlibs.sh in the source
> tree). It's a simple library that basically just wraps the syscalls in
> <linux/capability.h> and puts its API in <sys/capability.h>. vsftpd
> will just make the syscalls itself if <sys/capability.h> doesn't exist
> (see sysdeputil.c in the vsftpd source).
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.4/
> 
> Can I add this to the book?

Things like this shouldn't really need 'permission'. I consider a
missing dependency as a defect. Let's keep the option to fix defects
available all the way up until the final release.

Does this should too risky? I don't think so, but others may.

-- 
Randy

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