[tor-talk] Browser want UNIX sys_admin capability

[Mr. Bob Dobalina]

On 2020-04-16 15:48, David Teller wrote:
> Fwiw, sys_admin doesn't show up in the source code of Firefox.
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN is defined but never used.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Yoric

That is very interesting.
could that mean, the Linux distributor is adding this requirement!?

> 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