pscap(8) — Linux manual page

PSCAP:(8)            System Administration Utilities            PSCAP:(8)

NAME         top

       pscap - a program to see capabilities

SYNOPSIS         top

       pscap [ -a | -p pid ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       pscap is a program that prints out a report of process
       capabilities. If the application has any capabilities, it will be
       in the report with the exception of init. By giving the -a command
       line option, init will be included, too. By giving a pid with the
       -p command line option, only the process specified with the pid is
       reported. If a process is not in the report, it has dropped all
       capabilities. If the process has partial capabilities, it is
       further examined to see if it has an open-ended bounding set. If
       this is found to be true, a '+' symbol is added. If the process
       has ambient capabilities, a '@' symbols is added.

       The command name in the output may be followed by an asterisk mark
       (*). This mark denotes processes which run in child user
       namespaces (relative to the user namespace of pscap itself).

SEE ALSO         top

       netcap(8), filecap(8), capabilities(7), ps(8).

AUTHOR         top

       Steve Grubb

COLOPHON         top

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Red Hat                         Sept 2020                       PSCAP:(8)

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