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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

Usage tutorial (Olaf Kirch: Using Capabilities - 2002):
http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node125.html

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.

Maintained by: Menno E. Duursma
Keywords: security,capabilities,linux-privs,posix,capset
ChangeLog: libcap

Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-privs/

Source Downloads:
libcap-1.97.tar.gz (0021ac30148844537e134512587691fb)

Download SlackBuild:
libcap.tar.gz
libcap.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

(the SlackBuild does not include the source)

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