Capabilities and Flags

In a system with the [_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED] option defined, this overrides the restriction of changing file ownership and group ownership.

Override all DAC access, including ACL execute access if [_POSIX_ACL] is defined. Excluding DAC access covered by CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE.

Overrides all DAC restrictions regarding read and search on files and directories, including ACL restrictions if [_POSIX_ACL] is defined. Excluding DAC access covered by CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE.

Overrides all restrictions about allowed operations on files, where file owner ID must be equal to the user ID, except where CAP_FSETID is applicable. It doesn't override MAC and DAC restrictions.

Overrides the following restrictions that the effective user ID shall match the file owner ID when setting the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits on that file; that the effective group ID (or one of the supplementary group IDs) shall match the file owner ID when setting the S_ISGID bit on that file; that the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits are cleared on successful return from chown(2) (not implemented).

Overrides the restriction that the real or effective user ID of a process sending a signal must match the real or effective user ID of the process receiving the signal.

Allows setgid(2) manipulation
Allows setgroups(2)
Allows forged gids on socket credentials passing.

Allows set*uid(2) manipulation (including fsuid).
Allows forged pids on socket credentials passing.

Transfer any capability in your permitted set to any pid, remove any capability in your permitted set from any pid

Allow modification of S_IMMUTABLE and S_APPEND file attributes

Allows binding to TCP/UDP sockets below 1024
Allows binding to ATM VCIs below 32

Allow broadcasting, listen to multicast

Allow interface configuration
Allow administration of IP firewall, masquerading and accounting
Allow setting debug option on sockets
Allow modification of routing tables
Allow setting arbitrary process / process group ownership on sockets
Allow binding to any address for transparent proxying
Allow setting TOS (type of service)
Allow setting promiscuous mode
Allow clearing driver statistics
Allow multicasting
Allow read/write of device-specific registers
Allow activation of ATM control sockets

Allow use of RAW sockets
Allow use of PACKET sockets

Allow locking of shared memory segments
Allow mlock and mlockall (which doesn't really have anything to do with IPC)

Override IPC ownership checks

Insert and remove kernel modules - modify kernel without limit
Modify cap_bset

Allow ioperm/iopl access
Allow sending USB messages to any device via /proc/bus/usb

Allow use of chroot()

Allow ptrace() of any process

Allow configuration of process accounting

Allow configuration of the secure attention key
Allow administration of the random device
Allow examination and configuration of disk quotas
Allow configuring the kernel's syslog (printk behaviour)
Allow setting the domainname
Allow setting the hostname
Allow calling bdflush()
Allow mount() and umount(), setting up new smb connection
Allow some autofs root ioctls
Allow nfsservctl
Allow VM86_REQUEST_IRQ
Allow to read/write pci config on alpha
Allow irix_prctl on mips (setstacksize)
Allow flushing all cache on m68k (sys_cacheflush)
Allow removing semaphores
Used instead of CAP_CHOWN to "chown" IPC message queues, semaphores and shared memory
Allow locking/unlocking of shared memory segment
Allow turning swap on/off
Allow forged pids on socket credentials passing
Allow setting readahead and flushing buffers on block devices
Allow setting geometry in floppy driver
Allow turning DMA on/off in xd driver
Allow administration of md devices (mostly the above, but some extra ioctls)
Allow tuning the ide driver
Allow access to the nvram device
Allow administration of apm_bios, serial and bttv (TV) device
Allow manufacturer commands in isdn CAPI support driver
Allow reading non-standardized portions of pci configuration space
Allow DDI debug ioctl on sbpcd driver
Allow setting up serial ports
Allow sending raw qic-117 commands
Allow enabling/disabling tagged queuing on SCSI controllers and sending arbitrary SCSI commands
Allow setting encryption key on loopback filesystem
Allow setting zone reclaim policy

Allow use of reboot()

Allow raising priority and setting priority on other (different UID) processes
Allow use of FIFO and round-robin (realtime) scheduling on own processes and setting the scheduling algorithm used by another process.
Allow setting cpu affinity on other processes

Override resource limits. Set resource limits.
Override quota limits.
Override reserved space on ext2 filesystem
Modify data journaling mode on ext3 filesystem (uses journaling resources)
NOTE: ext2 honors fsuid when checking for resource overrides, so you can override using fsuid too
Override size restrictions on IPC message queues
Allow more than 64hz interrupts from the real-time clock
Override max number of consoles on console allocation
Override max number of keymaps

Allow manipulation of system clock
Allow irix_stime on mips
Allow setting the real-time clock

Allow configuration of tty devices
Allow vhangup() of tty

Allow the privileged aspects of mknod()

Allow taking of leases on files

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Allow setdomainname(2) and sethostname(2)

Allow setrlimit(2)

Allow usage of raw ICMP sockets

Allow syslog(2)

Allow secure mount(2)

Allow secure remount

Allow binary/network mounts

Allow quota ioctls

Allow access to device mapper

Allow access to loop devices

Prohibit further context migration

Account all processes as one (Legacy)

Apply process limits to context (Legacy)

Context cannot be entered (Legacy)

Show a fake init process

Hide context information in task status

Apply ulimits to context (Legacy)

Use private namespace (Legacy)

Enable hard scheduler

Enable priority scheduler

Pause context (unschedule)

Virtualize memory information

Virtualize uptime information

Virtualize cpu usage information

Virtualize load average information

Allow per guest time offsets

Hide entries in /proc/$pid/mounts

Hide foreign network interfaces

Hide context information in task status

Enable setup state

Enable init state

Enable admin state

Enable state change helper

Kill all processes on reboot(2)

Make context persistent

Block fork when RSS limit is exceeded

Allow context to create new contexts

Ignore priority raise

Prohibit further context migration

Enable setup state

Enable admin state

Enable state change helper

Make network context persistent