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-rw-r--r--src/libhydra/plugins/kernel_netlink/kernel_netlink_plugin.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/libhydra/plugins/kernel_netlink/kernel_netlink_plugin.c b/src/libhydra/plugins/kernel_netlink/kernel_netlink_plugin.c
index 2db03d854..8d5a0d5e8 100644
--- a/src/libhydra/plugins/kernel_netlink/kernel_netlink_plugin.c
+++ b/src/libhydra/plugins/kernel_netlink/kernel_netlink_plugin.c
@@ -66,10 +66,11 @@ plugin_t *kernel_netlink_plugin_create()
private_kernel_netlink_plugin_t *this;
if (!lib->caps->keep(lib->caps, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- { /* required to bind/use XFRM sockets / create routing tables */
- DBG1(DBG_KNL, "kernel-netlink plugin requires CAP_NET_ADMIN "
+ { /* required to bind/use XFRM sockets / create/modify routing tables, but
+ * not if only the read-only parts of kernel-netlink-net are used, so
+ * we don't fail here */
+ DBG1(DBG_KNL, "kernel-netlink plugin might require CAP_NET_ADMIN "
"capability");
- return NULL;
}
INIT(this,