Hi, On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:21 PM Alex Kompel <[email protected]> wrote: > If the binary is built with lipcap-ng, tcpdump fails with "Couldn't change > ownership of savefile". If HAVE_LIBCAP_NG is defined, chown is called after > CAP_CHOWN capability is dropped. > I believe this is caused by the recent patch introduced as part of > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=935112 : > https://salsa.debian.org/rfrancoise/tcpdump/-/blob/master/debian/patches/drop-privs-after-opening-savefile.diff
Can you tell me more about the use case for building with libcap-ng? (For the record, the patch referenced above was introduced in 2019, it's not recent.) -- Romain Francoise <[email protected]> https://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/
