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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-03-28 02:01:51 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-03-28 02:01:51 +0000
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@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="bzip2.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="pkgconfig.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="ncurses.xml"/>
+
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="attr.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="acl.xml"/>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libcap.xml"/>
+
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="shadow.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="psmisc.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="procps.xml"/>
diff --git a/chapter06/libcap.xml b/chapter06/libcap.xml
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+++ b/chapter06/libcap.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-libcap" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="libcap.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>libcap</productname>
+ <productnumber>&libcap-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&libcap-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Libcap-&libcap-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap">
+ <primary sortas="a-Libcap">Libcap</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Libcap package implements the user-space interfaces to the POSIX
+ 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels. These capabilities are a
+ partitioning of the all powerful root privilege into a set of distinct
+ privileges.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&libcap-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&libcap-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Libcap</title>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make RAISE_SETFCAP=no prefix=/usr install
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libcap.so</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
+ <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
+ <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libcap.so.* /lib
+ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libcap.so) /usr/lib/libcap.so</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-libcap" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Libcap</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>capsh, getcap, getpcaps, and setcap</seg>
+ <seg>libcap.{a,so}</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="capsh">
+ <term><command>capsh</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>A shell wrapper to explore and constrain capability support</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap capsh">
+ <primary sortas="b-capsh">capsh</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="getcap">
+ <term><command>getcap</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Examines file capabilities</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap getcap">
+ <primary sortas="b-getcap">getcap</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="getpcaps">
+ <term><command>getpcaps</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Displays the capabilities on the queried process(es)</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap getpcaps">
+ <primary sortas="b-getpcaps">getpcaps</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libcap">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcap</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Contains the libcap API functions</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libcap libcap">
+ <primary sortas="c-libcap">libcap</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>