On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:37:50 +0400 (MSD)
> >From: Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
> >To: mharris@meteng.on.ca, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> >Subject: Re: Capabilities..
> >
> >In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007251109190.30742-100000@asdf.capslock.lan> Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca) wrote:
> >> How does one exercise the CAP_SYSPCAP capability? In other
> >> words, if root starts up with all capabilities as defined in the
> >> cap-bound set, how does root pass a capability to another PID?
> >
> >With capset(2) obviously...
>
> Wasn't too obvious to me:
>
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2# man capset
> No manual entry for capset
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2# man 2 capset
> No entry for capset in section 2 of the manual
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2# whatis capset
> capset: nothing appropriate
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2# apropos capset
> capset: nothing appropriate
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2# locate capset
> 2 root@asdf:/usr/man/man2#
>
> I'll go search freshmeat or something I guess...
>
Hey, you have full documentation. In very obvious place : in
/usr/src/linux/kernel/capability.c ... Two syscalls: capget(2) to read
and capset(2) to chnage...
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