[MacPorts] #42986: openal-soft @1.15.1: complains about pulseaudio (@5.0) not being built with capabilities support

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Fri May 1 15:44:03 PDT 2015


#42986: openal-soft @1.15.1: complains about pulseaudio (@5.0) not being built with
capabilities support
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  Reporter:  egall@…                 |      Owner:  ionic@…
      Type:  defect                  |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal                  |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                   |    Version:  2.2.1
Resolution:                          |   Keywords:
      Port:  openal-soft pulseaudio  |
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Comment (by ionic@…):

 Be careful. Capabilities does not refer to FS capabilities support only.
 It also refers to running "arbitrary" functions/programs with elevated
 privileges. Those are mostly granted via setting capabilities on binaries,
 but I guess there are other ways, too.

 `CAP_NET_ADMIN` is widely used to let users change network interfaces.

 PulseaAudio is probably interested in `CAP_SYS_NICE` or `CAP_SYS_RESOURCE`
 for real-time support.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42986#comment:20>
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