[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#683080: Bug#683080: bacula-fd: Please build with libcap-dev

[Alexander Golovko]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:31:15 +0100, Bart Swedrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28 July 2012 15:03, Elrond <elrond+bugs.debian.org at samba-tng.org> 
> wrote:
>> Could you allow the "-k" option to bacula-fd?
>>
>> Starting with -k gives the following error:
>>
>>    "Keep readall caps not implemented this OS or missing libraries."
>>
>> My current guess: bacula-fd is not linked to the libcap
>> library. After a quick look at bacula's configure.in and
>> src/lib/priv.c this seems to really be the case.
>>
>> So probably just having libcap-dev installed while
>> building bacula should solve this.
>
> By default, Debian installation of bacula-fd runs it as root user so
> having that option is pointless in current state of things.  However,
> the benefits of it are quite obvious and can potentially be useful 
> for
> quite a wide range of users in my opinion.
>
> Upstream documentation about the "-k" option -
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_0.html#SECTION001080000000000000000
>
> I wouldn't mind adding this option however still stick to running
> bacula-fd as a root user by default; if someone wants to make use of
> "-k" option functionality they'll be able to do so via utilising
> /etc/default/bacula-fd overrides.
>
> Luca, Alexandro - what's your view on this, guys?

I'm sure, that this is usefull feature and we can build bacula-fd with 
it
.

>
> Regards
>
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Alexander Golovko
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