NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXIT STATUS | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

CAPSH(1)                        User Commands                       CAPSH(1)

NAME         top

       capsh - capability shell wrapper

SYNOPSIS         top

       capsh [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

OPTIONS         top

       The tool takes a number of optional arguments, acting on them in the
       order they are provided. They are as follows:
       --print               Display prevailing capability and related
                             state.
       -- [args]             Execute /bin/bash with trailing arguments.
                             Note, you can use -c 'command to execute' for
                             specific commands.
       ==                    Execute capsh again with remaining arguments.
                             Useful for testing exec() behavior.
       --caps=cap-set        Set the prevailing process capabilities to
                             those specified by cap-set.  Where cap-set is a
                             text-representation of capability state as per
                             cap_from_text(3).
       --drop=cap-list       Remove the listed capabilities from the
                             prevailing bounding set. The capabilites are a
                             comma separated list of capabilities as
                             recognized by the cap_from_name(3) function.
                             Use of this feature requires that the capsh
                             program is operating with CAP_SETPCAP in its
                             effective set.
       --inh=cap-list        Set the inheritable set of capabilities for the
                             current process to equal those provided in the
                             comma separated list. For this action to
                             succeed, the prevailing process should already
                             have each of these capabilities in the union of
                             the current inheritable and permitted
                             capability sets, or the capsh program is
                             operating with CAP_SETPCAP in its effective
                             set.
       --user=username       Assume the identity of the named user. That is,
                             look up the user's uid and gid with getpwuid(3)
                             and their group memberships with
                             getgrouplist(3) and set them all.
       --uid=id              Force all uid values to equal id using the
                             setuid(2) system call.
       --gid=<id>            Force all gid values to equal id using the
                             setgid(2) system call.
       --groups=<id-list>    Set the supplementary groups to the numerical
                             list provided. The groups are set with the
                             setgroups(2) system call.
       --keep=<0|1>          In a non-pure capability mode, the kernel
                             provides liberal privilege to the super-user.
                             However, it is normally the case that when the
                             super-user changes uid to some lesser user,
                             then capabilities are dropped. For these
                             situations, the kernel can permit the process
                             to retain its capabilities after a setuid(2)
                             system call. This feature is known as keep-caps
                             support. The way to activate it using this
                             script is with this argument. Setting the value
                             to 1 will cause keep-caps to be active. Setting
                             it to 0 will cause keep-caps to deactivate for
                             the current process. In all cases, keep-caps is
                             deactivated when an exec() is performed. See
                             --secbits for ways to disable this feature.
       --secbits=N           XXX - need to document this feature.
       --chroot=path         Execute the chroot(2) system call with the new
                             root-directory (/) equal to path.  This
                             operation requires CAP_SYS_CHROOT to be in
                             effect.
       --forkfor=sec
       --killit=sig
       --decode=N            This is a convenience feature. If you look at
                             /proc/1/status there are some capability
                             related fields of the following form:
                              CapInh:  0000000000000000
                              CapPrm:  ffffffffffffffff
                              CapEff:  fffffffffffffeff
                              CapBnd:  ffffffffffffffff
                             This option provides a quick way to decode a
                             capability vector represented in this form. For
                             example, the missing capability from this
                             effective set is 0x0100. By running:
                              capsh --decode=0x0100
                             we observe that the missing capability is:
                             cap_setpcap.
       --supports=xxx        As the kernel evolves, more capabilities are
                             added. This option can be used to verify the
                             existence of a capability on the system. For
                             example, --supports=cap_syslog will cause capsh
                             to promptly exit with a status of 1 when run on
                             kernel 2.6.27.  However, when run on kernel
                             2.6.38 it will silently succeed.

EXIT STATUS         top

              Following successful execution the tool exits with status 0.
              Following an error, the tool immediately exits with status 1.

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       Please report bugs to the author.

SEE ALSO         top

       libcap(3), getcap(8),setcap(8) and capabilities(7).

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the libcap (capabilities commands and library)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/morgan/libcap.git/⟩.  If
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libcap 2                         2011-04-24                         CAPSH(1)

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