Your message dated Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:57:28 +0900 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#276354: Linux capabilities per default not loaded has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 13 Oct 2004 15:09:11 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 13 08:09:11 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailrelay.tu-graz.ac.at (mailrelay02.tugraz.at) [129.27.3.7] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1CHkkY-0004da-00; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:09:11 -0700 Received: from fiicmgk01.tu-graz.ac.at (fiicmgk01.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.200.50]) by mailrelay02.tugraz.at (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9DF8cFT005416 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:08:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fiicmal01.tu-graz.ac.at (fiicmal01.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.153.18]) by fiicmgk01.tu-graz.ac.at (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9DF8bEB023529 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:08:38 +0200 Received: from [] (fiicmpc78 [129.27.153.78]) by fiicmal01.tu-graz.ac.at (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9DF8bab029702 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:08:37 +0200 From: Christian Mayrhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux capabilities per default not loaded Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:16:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: Package: kernel-image-2.6-686-smp Version: 100 Please build the linux capabilities into the kernel or ask the user to the capability module into /etc/modules during install. The standard behaviour to have linux capabilites deactivated is insecure. -- lg, Chris --------------------------------------- Received: (at 276354-done) by bugs.debian.org; 14 Oct 2004 08:33:18 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 14 01:33:18 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from koto.vergenet.net [210.128.90.7] by spohr.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1CI130-0005lC-00; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:33:18 -0700 Received: (qmail 12403 invoked by uid 7100); 14 Oct 2004 08:20:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:57:28 +0900 From: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christian Mayrhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#276354: Linux capabilities per default not loaded Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Cluestick: seven User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6-686-smp > Version: 100 > > Please build the linux capabilities into the kernel or ask the user > to the capability module into /etc/modules during install. > The standard behaviour to have linux capabilites deactivated is > insecure. I do not believe it is the role of the debian-kernel team to determine the security model that users use, rather, to provide a kernel that allows users to make these decisions for themselves. -- Horms