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Bug 792300

Summary: sys-process/iotop please add capabilities
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) <prometheanfire>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: ionen, sam, shell-tools
Priority: Normal Keywords: PullRequest
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19586
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Description Alessandro Barbieri 2021-05-26 19:59:56 UTC
It can use cap net admin
Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2021-05-27 05:40:37 UTC
Did you test this? You're setting capabilities on a python script, that doesn't work and you'd need to set it on the interpreter itself (which is not happening), or at most use a wrapper but this sounds like a security hazard.

I don't think the situation changed since bug #388653

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388653 ***