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The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes utilities that can analyze all currently running applications to locate applications that may have too many privileges.

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2009-06-30 03:35
0.6

This release adds Python bindings, adds an m4 file to make autotools integration easier, has some compatibility fixes for older operating systems, and adds the setting SECURE_NO_SETUID_FIXUP to the capng_lock function.

2009-06-22 08:55
0.5.1

Various improvements to the captest program, masked out upper unassigned capabilities bits for various operations, and corrected operation on the bounding set.

2009-06-20 02:44
0.5

More portability fixes. Handles the bounding set a little better. Correct GID handling in the change_id function. A captest program to allow experimenting with POSIX capabilities.

2009-06-13 06:06
0.4.2

Some portability updates and reordered clearing of bounding set in capng_change_id.

2009-06-12 05:33
0.4.1

This release adds man pages for all library functions.

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