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Re: How does one use capabilities

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On 2014-02-12, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm learning about something that I didn't even know was in Linux for quite some time now: capabilities.  How do they actually get set?
>
> I did something like this:

ignoring for now the memory leak.


>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/capabilities.h>

shoule be 
#include <sys/capability.h>

>
> int main() {
>     cap_t caps = cap_get_pid(getpid());
>
>     std::cout << "capabilities: " << cap_to_text(caps) << std::endl;

should be 
  cap_to_text(caps,NULL) 
  
,which leaks memory, but atleast doesn't give undefined behaviour.

>     return 0;
> }
>

> Which returns "=".  It seems unlikely that the process has no capabilities.  Plus, every code example I've found thus far (which isn't many) shows that one first allocates a cap_t struct with cap_init() and then sets the values he wishes and then calls cap_set_pid() or similar.  Is this how it's supposed to be used?

well, in spite of all that it seems to be working.
try running it as root.

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How does one use capabilities Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 17:00 -0800
  Re: How does one use capabilities Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2014-02-12 09:41 +0000
    Re: How does one use capabilities Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 13:59 -0800
      Re: How does one use capabilities Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2014-02-13 11:47 +0000
        Re: How does one use capabilities Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-02-13 14:12 +0000

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