execcap(8)

execcap8

Create a process with limited capabilities

Usage

execcap CAPS COMMAND-PATH [COMMAND-ARGS] ...

Overview

execcap executes the command given in COMMAND-PATH and COMMAND-ARGS with the specified capabilities CAPS.

Due to the nature of capabilities, you can only remove capabilites you currently possess, not add others.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

  1. 3.0–3.1

Author

This manual page was written by Robert Bihlmeyer <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From libcap2-bin 0.cvs.20010529-4 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.