Bug 216330

Summary:	Complete the su-without-root article
Product:	Tools	Reporter:	Andrew G. Morgan (morgan)
Component:	libcap	Assignee:	Andrew G. Morgan (morgan)
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	n/a	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Andrew G. Morgan 2022-08-05 15:16:47 UTC

Finish

   https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/su-without-root

Things still needed:

 - fix su[cap] to not generate bash errors (see   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215926 for a related issue)
 - write something about minimal capabilities for the su binary.

Comment 1 Andrew G. Morgan 2022-08-06 03:57:48 UTC

contrib/sucap/su fixes:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libcap/libcap.git/commit/?id=fc437fd8308b4ee4d8e3053d51471883946f9b04

I'll keep this bug open until I update the article.

Comment 2 Andrew G. Morgan 2022-08-06 16:03:16 UTC

Documented article updated. Now that the article refers to the git clone at HEAD I didn't bother waiting for a release to complete it.