Library for Capabilities (linux-privs) Support

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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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baselibs.conf 0000000016 16 Bytes
libcap-2.51.tar.xz 0000145440 142 KB
libcap.changes 0000017644 17.2 KB
libcap.spec 0000004477 4.37 KB
Revision 47 (latest revision is 59)
Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 906773 from Dirk Mueller's avatar Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) (revision 47)
- update to 2.51:
  * Fix capsh installation
  * Add an autoauth module flag to pam_cap.so
  * Unified libcap/cap (Go) and libcap (C) default generation of external format binary data
  * API enhancement cap_fill() and (*cap.Set).Fill() - to permit copying one
    capability flag to another.
  * --explain=cap_foo: describe what cap_foo does
  * --suggest=phrase: search all the cap descriptions and describe those that match the phrase
  * Add "keepcaps" module argument support to pam_cap.so (reported by Zoltan Fridrich. Bug 212945)
  * extend libcap to include cap_prctl() and cap_prctlw() functions to regain
    feature parity with Go "cap" package. These are only needed when linking
    against -lpsx for keepcaps POSIX semantics.
  * this likely requires substantial application changes to make Ambient
    capability support usable in general, but doing our part for the admin.
  * Add a test case for recent kernel fix
  * Go pragma fix for convenience functions in "cap" module
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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