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Subject: Re: setcap and nosuid
From: "Siddons, David via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>, Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 16:21:44 +0000
Hi David,
  I believe I'm hitting the same issue. In an embedded IOC I need to access /dev/mem, which requires privilege. The system is Debian 10, on a ZynQ processor. I want to run this IOC as a regular user, not root. I tried setcap, but always get:

Failed to get capabilities of file `./regrw' (Operation not supported)
whatever file I try it on.

I also tried putting the user in the kmem group, like /dev/mem:

ls -l /dev/mem                                      
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 1 Feb  1 21:05 /dev/mem

groups hera                                          
hera : hera kmem sudo i2c

Although that worked for /dev/i2c, it did not for /dev/mem. Is this a symptom of what you described? How do I fix it?

Pete.

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 4:47 PM
To: EPICS Tech-Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: setcap and nosuid
 
A tip to anyone messing around with Linux file capabilities (and myself in future).
These are silently ignored when the underlying file system is mounted with 'nosuid'.
In retrospect not surprising, but I've just spent more time than I would care to
admit in finding this out.
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