[tor-talk] Browser want UNIX sys_admin capability

David Teller dteller at mozilla.com
Thu Apr 16 15:48:18 UTC 2020


Fwiw, sys_admin doesn't show up in the source code of Firefox.
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is defined but never used.

Cheers,
 Yoric

On 16/04/2020 00:52, Matthew Finkel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:49 PM Nicolas Vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Mr. Bob Dobalina wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Friends,
>>>
>>> it happen to see Firefox and tor bundle browser (linux64) both demand for
>>> sys_admin capabilities, see man 7 capabilitites.
>>>
>>> Why exactly they need the sys_admin caps?
>>
> 
> How are you installing Tor Browser?
> 
>> It should not require CAP_SYS_ADMIN


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