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 0000000008 8 Bytes
libcap-2.16.tar.bz2 0000048451 47.3 KB
libcap-u64-typedef-fix.diff 0000000701 701 Bytes
libcap.changes 0000006861 6.7 KB
libcap.spec 0000003910 3.82 KB
Revision 19 (latest revision is 59)
autobuild's avatar autobuild accepted request 43692 from Stephan Kulow's avatar Stephan Kulow (coolo) (revision 19)
Copy from Base:System/libcap based on submit request 43692 from user coolo
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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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