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| author | Menno E. Duursma <druiloor@zonnet.nl> | 2010-05-11 19:45:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 19:45:07 +0200 |
| commit | fc4ecdcdd3913ffddb258021d426221eb66cc4fe (patch) | |
| tree | f2834f1e02ff083c9edc4b6b02d869949e375e39 /libraries/libcap/README | |
| parent | abb74ac47c4a972b7585427263aa2c5c4c296b0b (diff) | |
libraries/libcap: Updated for version 1.97
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| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/libcap/README | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/libcap/README b/libraries/libcap/README index 48b8ac021ffda..5922aa31f1403 100644 --- a/libraries/libcap/README +++ b/libraries/libcap/README @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities. +libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e +(formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities. More information (POSIX 1e and 2c drafts): http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/download.html @@ -6,8 +7,12 @@ http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/download.html Usage tutorial (Olaf Kirch: Using Capabilities - 2002): http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node125.html -Linux Capabilities FAQ 0.2 (by Boris Tobotras - 1999): - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/capfaq-0.2.txt +Active development of libcap v2 is in filesystem capabilities, see: +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/README + +And maybe read Serge E. Hallyn' article +POSIX file capabilities: Parceling the power of root +http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-posixcap.html?ca=dgr-lnxw06LinuxPOSIX If you uninstall this package, you will need to manually remove the /usr/include/sys/capability.h header. |