On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Mamoru TASAKA wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2020/01/04 23:34: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > >> > >> i'm puzzled by something i just tripped over on my fully-updated f31 > >> system ... while mucking around with some networking, i happened to > >> run: > >> > >> $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping > >> > >> and was surprised to see it rendered in the colour scheme (yellow > >> letters on red background) normally reserved for setuid executables. i > >> looked closer but saw nothing amiss: > >> > >> $ ls -l /usr/bin/ping > >> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 83136 Jul 25 13:28 /usr/bin/ping > >> $ > >> > >> running "lsattr" on that executable didn't seem to show anything > >> unusual, and all of the other executables under /usr/bin that are > >> rendered in that colour scheme are, indeed, setuid. am i > >> misunderstanding something really trivial? > > > > oh, wait, this is a capabilities thing, isn't it? > > > > Exactly. You can check this by > $ getcap /usr/bin/ping
yes, i twigged to that shortly after asking ... i was just thrown that that seems to be the only /usr/bin executable with that property, which confused me. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
