On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
I have found a document at ftp://ftp.guardian.no/pub/free/linux/capabilities/capfaq.txt describing the capabilities.
Yet is there a plain english bersion that I could not locate or what are the best uses of these for apache and proftp
Well, all the capabilities should be described in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h You may have a look at ftp://linux.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/ or http://www.de.lids.org/lids-howto/node34.html (although the latter one refers obviously to LIDS) HTH best regards, Rainer Link -- Rainer Link | SuSE - The Linux Experts link@suse.de | Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (www.amavis.org) www.suse.de | Founder OpenAntiVirus Project (www.openantivirus.org)