[lxc-users] setcap capabilities

Mark Constable markc at renta.net
Sat Feb 13 10:21:30 UTC 2016


Outside a container on the host I can...

~ /sbin/setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/caddy
~ getcap /usr/bin/caddy
/usr/bin/caddy = cap_net_bind_service+ep

but inside a container I get...

~ /sbin/setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/caddy
Failed to set capabilities on file `/usr/bin/caddy' (Invalid argument)
The value of the capability argument is not permitted for a file. Or the file is not a regular (non-symlink) file

What procedure should I follow to allow the above cap_net_bind_service=+ep to be
set inside a 2.0.0~beta1 container?


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