Linux capabilites check broken on NetBSD
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Jul 7 01:20:54 UTC 2016
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> On NetBSD:
> 07-06T15:42:17 ntpd[4940]: root can't be dropped due to missing capabilities.
So don't do that, then. Drop root, I mean. Without some equivalent of Linux
or Solaris fine-grained privilege control, setting the clock won't work
afterwards.
What has NetBSD been doing before this?
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