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
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.
Richard
I guess I am thick because I can't understand the explanation in the web page above. An example or two might have helped.