On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:24:19 +0100
Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote:

> ip vrf exec requires root or CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_ADMIN and
> CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE. It is not possible to run unprivileged commands like
> ping as non-root or non-cap-enabled due to this requirement.
> To allow users and administrators to safely add the required
> capabilities to the binary, drop all capabilities on start if not
> invoked with "vrf exec".
> Update the manpage with the requirements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>

Gets a little messy, but don't have a better answer.
When a command like iproute gets involved in security policy things
I become concerned that it may have unexpected consequences.

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