Linux "capsh" Command Line Options and Examples

capability shell wrapper

Linux capability support and use can be explored and constrained with this tool. This tool provides a handy wrapper for certain types of capability testing and environment creation. It also provides some debugging features useful for summarizing capability state.

Usage:

capsh [OPTION]...

Related Commands

getcap

Command Line Options:

--print

Display prevailing capability and related state.


                            capsh --print ...

--uid

Force all uid values to equal id using the setuid(2) system call.


                            capsh --uid ...

--gid

Force all gid values to equal id using the setgid(2) system call.


                            capsh --gid ...

--secbits

XXX - need to document this feature.


                            capsh --secbits ...