Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:13:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Capabilities.. |
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How does one exercise the CAP_SYSPCAP capability? In other words, if root starts up with all capabilities as defined in the cap-bound set, how does root pass a capability to another PID?
Is there a userland utility that root can run to give other PID's other capabilities? Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of this CAP? If I'm understanding it correctly, why then are system daemons that require root privs, not instead getting only the required CAP's passed to them somehow?
Any help in understanding this, and finding existing utils would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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