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Bug 359937 - net-misc/iputils: support file capabilities instead of set*id
Summary: net-misc/iputils: support file capabilities instead of set*id
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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: 408927 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-03-22 13:15 UTC by montjoie
Modified: 2015-04-25 00:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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patch to add caps use flag to iputils ebuild (iputils_with_caps.patch,1.88 KB, patch)
2011-03-22 13:18 UTC, montjoie 		Details | Diff
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Description montjoie 2011-03-22 13:15:22 UTC 
/bin/ping is set-uid
We can use posix caps to set it CAP_NET_RAW instead of set-uid
(same thing for ping6 traceroute6

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 montjoie 2011-03-22 13:18:20 UTC 
Created attachment 266855 [details, diff]
patch to add caps use flag to iputils ebuild

This patch add the support of setting posix caps to ping and traceroute6

(It corrects also some mising || die)
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2011-03-22 14:28:04 UTC 
we're not going to quite go that route.  there's already an eclass being proposed on gentoo-dev to handle this.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2013-01-25 04:22:37 UTC 
*** Bug 408927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-04-25 00:00:43 UTC 
hmm i implemented this a few years ago in iputils-20121221-r1 which is now stable.  guess i forgot to update this bug.

https://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/iputils/iputils-20121221-r1.ebuild?revision=1.1&view=markup