Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 09:00:28PM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > >> What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? > > > > I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is > > secure. > > well, also, unless you set capabilities on the executable

Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? > > I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is > secure. well, also, unless you set capabilities on the executable a process can't have capabilities when a non-root process execs the executable

Re: [arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 07:51:30PM +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? I _guess_ that capabilities are used to avoid SUID binaries when this is secure. > I'm asking since in my setup I'm running wpa_supplicant as the > 'nobody'

[arch-general] Policy about packages and file capabilities

2015-11-16 Thread Damjan Georgievski
What's the policy about capabilities for executables in Arch packages? I'm asking since in my setup I'm running wpa_supplicant as the 'nobody' user, but I let it keep the NET_ADMIN and NET_RAW capabilities (excerpt from the .service file): User=nobody SupplementaryGroups=rfkill CapabilityBounding

Re: [arch-general] gsl 2.1

2015-11-16 Thread Antonio Rojas
Doug Newgard wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:38:04 -0500 (EST) > Scott Lawrence wrote: >> >> Is there an intention to update this package straight to 2.1, or to >> introduce a gsl2 package? I've no problem with putting this on AUR >> myself, but I don't want to step on toes / waste time. >> >

Re: [arch-general] gsl 2.1

2015-11-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Doug Newgard wrote: >> Putting it in the AUR would just get it deleted. Rule 1 of the AUR >> is that it can't duplicate packages in the official repos. The OP could provide gsl-git by the AUR ;).

Re: [arch-general] Mouse buttons not working in X

2015-11-16 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:31:27AM -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:56:30 +0100 >> Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> > I've just updated a sligtly neglected machine I have (not upgraded >> > since mid-September). Thanks to t