Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 13:02 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Well, these suppliers provide, quite often, QT apps that allow one to configure their devices. They need to first locate them. A network broadcast is what they would like to do. Except on Linux this requires root permissions.
I'm not at all sure, but isn't this managed with capabilities? There is a CAP_NET_BROADCAST (although the man page says "unused").
You have my attention. Where is this?
Well, maybe start with "man capabilities". I think that is where I saw CAP_NET_BROADCAST mentioned. I have never played with any of this, but my understanding is that you can manage various capabilities on a per-process or per-user basis. I'm grasping at straws, but I'm sure somebody here will have an actual understanding of this. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org