staprun:init_cap:73: ERROR: cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted

[David Smith]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
>>> Kernel 2.6.24-rc7
> 
> (Just for clarity, that's not an RHEL5 kernel.)
> 
>>> [...]
>>> staprun:init_cap:73: ERROR: cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted
>> The answer before (from Martin) was that the kernel needs to be built
>> with CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y
> 
> It would be nice if we had a reduced(?)-security fallback mode in the
> runtime to tolerate capability-less kernels.

It might be possible to just require the user to be root (either
directly or through sudo) if cap_set_proc() fails.

Would that be useful?

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