Am 23.12.2011 15:47, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 23:55 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 12/22/2011 03:33 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >>> Richard Heck wrote: >>>> When I do: >>>> ls /bin/ping >>>> I get "ping" displayed with black text on a red background. I don't see >>>> anything special about its permissions. What's up? >>> >>> Fedora switched[1] from using the suid-bit to capabilities. If you >>> wish to see capabilities you can run "getcap" on the file. >>> >>> $ getcap /bin/ping >>> >>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RemoveSETUID >>> >> Thanks. I did eventually figure this out. Unfortunately, there doesn't >> seem to be much documentation about this particular set of colors, >> though it is reminiscent of what happens with e.g. mount and umount. > > I guess I am thick because I can't understand the explanation in the web > page above. An example or two might have helped.
you need to understand what SETUID and CAPABILITIES are what examples are you expecting? these are technics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
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