On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 5:05 pm, atit_ldce wrote:

this is atit jariwala final semester student of be computer ldce ahd

i want to assign specific capabilities to specific user or process

i want this because i want my program that is using setsockopt call to run from other user then root

and runnig of setscokopt requires CAP_NET_ADMIN assigned to the user and by default it is assigned to root user only

and i want to assign this to specific user

thanks

I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say that allowing a user other than root to use setsockopt is a bit dangerous. Would running the program so that it runs as root automatically be OK(which can be done with a script...I've never got it working myself. Could someone else help?)

Could you go into more detail about the problem (like what the program is meant to do)? As there may be another way round the problem if you can tell us what you're trying to do...

thanks,

BenE

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