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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-libcap" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="libcap.html"?>
10
11  <title>Libcap-&libcap-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap">
14    <primary sortas="a-Libcap">Libcap</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e
21    (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  <sect2 role="installation">
26    <title>Installation of Libcap</title>
27
28    <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
31
32    <para os="c">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
33
34    <para os="d">Install the package:</para>
35
36<screen os="e"><userinput>make RAISE_SETFCAP=no install
37chmod -v 755 /lib/libcap.so.&libcap-version;
38rm -v /lib/libcap.so
39ln -sfv ../../lib/libcap.so.2 /usr/lib/libcap.so
40mv -v /lib/libcap.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
41
42  </sect2>
43
44  <sect2 id="contents-libcap" role="content">
45    <title>Contents of Libcap</title>
46
47    <segmentedlist>
48      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
49      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
50
51      <seglistitem>
52        <seg>capsh, setcap, getpcaps, getcap</seg>
53        <seg>libcap.[a,so]</seg>
54      </seglistitem>
55    </segmentedlist>
56
57    <variablelist>
58      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
59      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
60      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
61
62      <varlistentry id="capsh">
63        <term><command>capsh</command></term>
64        <listitem>
65          <para>Capability support and use can be explored and constrained
66          with this tool</para>
67          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap capsh">
68            <primary sortas="b-capsh">capsh</primary>
69          </indexterm>
70        </listitem>
71      </varlistentry>
72
73      <varlistentry id="setcap">
74        <term><command>setcap</command></term>
75        <listitem>
76          <para>Sets file capabilities</para>
77          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap setcap">
78            <primary sortas="b-setcap">setcap</primary>
79          </indexterm>
80        </listitem>
81      </varlistentry>
82
83      <varlistentry id="getpcaps">
84        <term><command>getpcaps</command></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>Displays the capabilities on the queried process(es)</para>
87          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap getpcaps">
88            <primary sortas="b-getpcaps">getpcaps</primary>
89          </indexterm>
90        </listitem>
91      </varlistentry>
92
93      <varlistentry id="getcap">
94        <term><command>getcap</command></term>
95        <listitem>
96          <para>Wxamines file capabilities</para>
97          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap getcap">
98            <primary sortas="b-getcap">getcap</primary>
99          </indexterm>
100        </listitem>
101      </varlistentry>
102
103      <varlistentry id="libcap">
104        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcap</filename></term>
105        <listitem>
106          <para>Library for setting and clearing POSIX.1e capabilities</para>
107          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap libcap">
108            <primary sortas="c-libcap">libcap</primary>
109          </indexterm>
110        </listitem>
111      </varlistentry>
112
113    </variablelist>
114
115  </sect2>
116
117</sect1>
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