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pquiring
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setcap missing

Post by pquiring » 2011/11/18 19:29:41

Where is the setcap program?

In Ubuntu they have the libcap2 package which has this program. Which package has it in CentOS?

CentOS does have libcap package has the setpcaps (for processes already running) and execcap but those won't work.

Thanks.

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setcap missing

Post by pschaff » 2011/11/18 22:07:39

CentOS-6 has it, but it does not exist in 5:[code]
# rpm -q libcap
libcap-2.16-5.2.el6.x86_64
# rpm -ql libcap
/lib64/libcap.so.2
/lib64/libcap.so.2.16
/lib64/security/pam_cap.so
/usr/sbin/capsh
/usr/sbin/getcap
/usr/sbin/getpcaps
/usr/sbin/setcap
/usr/share/doc/libcap-2.16
/usr/share/doc/libcap-2.16/License
/usr/share/doc/libcap-2.16/capability.notes
/usr/share/man/man8/getcap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setcap.8.gz[/code]
You could try [url=http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM]rebuilding the el6 SRPM[/url] in CentOS-5 but that may well have missing dependencies or break other things.

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