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capsh - capability shell wrapper
capsh [OPTION]...
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.
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.
Following successful execution the tool exits with status 0.
Following an error, the tool immediately exits with status 1.
Written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.
Please report bugs to the author.
libcap(3), getcap(8),setcap(8) and capabilities(7).
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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