Library for Capabilities (linux-privs) Support

Edit Package libcap

Capabilities are a measure to limit the omnipotence of the superuser.
Currently a program started by root or setuid root has the power to do
anything. Capabilities (Linux-Privs) provide a more fine-grained access
control. Without kernel patches, you can use this library to drop
capabilities within setuid binaries. If you use patches, this can be
done automatically by the kernel.

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Filename Size Changed
baselibs.conf 0000000016 16 Bytes
libcap-2.70.tar.sign 0000000833 833 Bytes
libcap-2.70.tar.xz 0000191388 187 KB
libcap.changes 0000027345 26.7 KB
libcap.keyring 0000020111 19.6 KB
libcap.spec 0000004784 4.67 KB
Latest Revision
Ana Guerrero's avatar Ana Guerrero (anag+factory) accepted request 1177532 from Marcus Meissner's avatar Marcus Meissner (msmeissn) (revision 60)
- update to 2.70:
  * setcap changes to make it harder to set invalid file capabilities
  * Lots of documentation fixes
  * Fix c89 compilation syntax for the C code in the libraries
  * libpam has deprecated providing the _pam_overwrite() function,
    so use memset() instead
Comments 1

Ilgaz Öcal's avatar

This library is problematic on current openSUSE TW, it doesn't install and when I try to build from rpm source:

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/ilgaz/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/libcap-2.64-84.121.x86_64 error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/security/pam_cap.so

RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/security/pam_cap.so

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