libcap: A library for getting and setting POSIX.1e capabilities1

As of Linux 2.2.0, the power of the superuser has been partitioned into a set of discrete capabilities (in other places, these capabilities are know as privileges).

The contents of the libcap package are a library and a number of simple programs that are intended to show how an application/daemon can be protected (with wrappers) or rewritten to take advantage of this fine grained approach to constraining the danger to your system from programs running as 'root'.

... part of T2, get it here

Author: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan [at] linux [dot] kernel [dot] org>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.76

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

CPU architectures: Does not support: avr32

Download: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/ libcap-2.76.tar.xz

T2 source: hotfix-gcc-4.2.patch.avr32
T2 source: hotfix-psx_calls.patch
T2 source: libcap.cache
T2 source: libcap.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 2% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.41 MB, 103 files

Dependencies (build time detected): bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gperf grep indent linux-header make pam sed tar xz

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

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