792300 – sys-process/iotop please add capabilities

Bug 792300 - sys-process/iotop please add capabilities

Summary: sys-process/iotop please add capabilities

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388653

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire )

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Keywords:	PullRequest

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Reported:	2021-05-26 19:59 UTC by Alessandro Barbieri
Modified:	2021-05-27 05:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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 ***