Library for Capabilities (linux-privs) Support

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Capabilities are a measure to limit the omnipotence of the superuser.
Currently a program started by root or setuid root has the power to do
anything. Capabilities (Linux-Privs) provide a more fine-grained access
control. Without kernel patches, you can use this library to drop
capabilities within setuid binaries. If you use patches, this can be
done automatically by the kernel.

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Filename Size Changed
baselibs.conf 0000000016 16 Bytes
libcap-2.47.tar.xz 0000131960 129 KB
libcap.changes 0000014747 14.4 KB
libcap.spec 0000004405 4.3 KB
Revision 42 (latest revision is 60)
Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 867074 from Dirk Mueller's avatar Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) (revision 42)
- update to 2.47:
  * Restructured gowns to default to uid base of getuid().
  * Augment NOPRIV libcap mode with the sticky NO_NEW_PRIVS prctl bit.
  * Improve the usage and diagnostic message for setcap
  * Documentation fixes, license declarations, example updates
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Ilgaz Öcal's avatar

This library is problematic on current openSUSE TW, it doesn't install and when I try to build from rpm source:

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/ilgaz/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/libcap-2.64-84.121.x86_64 error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/security/pam_cap.so

RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib64/security/pam_cap.so

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