This site is devoted to announcing new versions of libcap, and sharing information about using Linux Capabilities - an alternative to the superuser model of privilege under Linux.
Resources:
Resources:
- You can read about Linux Capabilities in this OLS paper.
- You can download libcap2 in the following ways:
- The Linux capability implementation is based on a defunct draft specification for various UN*X security extensions:
- Other sites that discuss the Linux capability implementation include:
Chris Friedhoff's excellent site: http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html