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CAPSH

Section: System Administration Utilities (8)
Updated: September 2009
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NAME

capsh - 'bash' wrapper to raise and lower the bset and pI capabilities  

DESCRIPTION

/sbin/capsh [args ...]

--help

this message

--print

display capability relevant state

--decode=xxx

decode a hex string to a list of caps

--drop=xxx

remove xxx,.. capabilities from bset

--caps=xxx

set caps as per cap_from_text()

--inh=xxx

set xxx,.. inheritiable set

--secbits=<n>

write a new value for securebits

--keep=<n>

set keep-capabability bit to <n>

--uid=<n>

set uid to <n> (hint: id <username>)

--chroot=path

chroot(2) to this path to invoke bash

--killit=<n>

send signal(n) to child

--forkfor=<n>

fork and make child sleep for <n> sec

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re-exec(capsh) with args as for --

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remaing arguments are for /bin/bash (without -- [/sbin/capsh] will simply exit(0))

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