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Re: [Xen-devel] xm create as root vs xm destroy as normal user

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On Saturday 25 June 2005 06:52 pm, Kip Macy wrote:
> There is currently no notion of capabilities. In 3.0 the default
> communication path between xm and xend is now a unix domain socket so
> by default only root can execute xm commands.

I'm sorry, I do not understand the answer. The "no notion of capabilities", 
does that mean "yes, non-root users can stop Xen sessions in 2.x"?


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