Setting up gpg on an IRIX web server

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:

> it would be nice for other os-s to support this so usage of setuid can
> be avoided.  does anyone know whether there is any work being done to
> support this?  (at least for linux?)

according to Dave Miller this is not allowed by POSIX.  The solution
for Linux are Capabilities (there is no Posix standard but it is
decribed in the draft standard).  GnuPG supports it and IIRC Rèmi
supplied the patches and it seems to work.  You have to do a 
./configure --use-capabilities to enable it.  However, you need an
extra library (libpcap) to make irt work.


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