Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-03 Thread Jack O'Quin
Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't the capabilities patch considered as a security risk by the > kernel folks? I never understood, why, tough. At least a > configure-option would be nice. Yes, it is. I don't know why either, but I believe it has something to do with CAP_SETPCAP,

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jack O'Quin hat gesagt: // Jack O'Quin wrote: > Downloaded 2.6.0-test7 to check, and that code is still present. > Someone said recently that capabilities were enabled in 2.6, but it > looks like the patch is still required. Sigh! Isn't the capabilities patch considered as a security risk

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-02 Thread Jack O'Quin
Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 03:38 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > > For a 2.4 kernel you needed to patch include/linux/capability.h as > > > follows... > > > > > > #define CAP_INIT_EFF_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > > #define CAP_INIT_INH_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > > > > >

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-02 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 03:38 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > For a 2.4 kernel you needed to patch include/linux/capability.h as > > follows... > > > > #define CAP_INIT_EFF_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > #define CAP_INIT_INH_SETto_cap_t(~0) > > > > where the original values were... > > > > #define CAP_INI

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-01 Thread Jack O'Quin
"Jack O'Quin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Would anyone have any idea what settings I need to tweak > > for ALSA built into a 2.6 kernel to avoid this problem ? > > This question just came up, and I don't know the answer. > > For a 2.4 kernel yo

Re: [Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-01 Thread Jack O'Quin
Mark Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would anyone have any idea what settings I need to tweak > for ALSA built into a 2.6 kernel to avoid this problem ? This question just came up, and I don't know the answer. For a 2.4 kernel you needed to patch include/linux/capability.h as follows...

[Alsa-user] Capabilities under 2.6.*

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Constable
Would anyone have any idea what settings I need to tweak for ALSA built into a 2.6 kernel to avoid this problem ? gw ~ jackstart -R -d alsa -d hw jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabiliti