NAME
captest - a program to demonstrate capabilities
SYNOPSIS
captest [ --drop-all | --drop-caps | --id ] [ --lock ] [ --text ]
DESCRIPTION
captest is a program that demonstrates and prints out the current
process capabilities. Each option prints the same report. It will
output current capabilities. then it will try to access /etc/shadow
directly to show if that can be done. Then it creates a child process
that attempts to read /etc/shadow and outputs the results of that. Then
it outputs the capabilities that a child process would have.
You can also apply file system capabilities to this program to study
how they work. For example, filecap /usr/bin/captest chown. Then run
captest as a normal user. Another interesting test is to make captest
suid root so that you can see what the interaction is between root’s
credentials and capabilities. For example, chmod 4755 /usr/bin/captest.
When run as a normal user, the program will see if privilege escalation
is possible. But do not leave this app setuid root after you are don
testing so that an attacker cannot take advantage of it.
OPTIONS
--drop-all
This drops all capabilities and clears the bounding set.
--drop-caps
This drops just traditional capabilities.
--id This changes to uid and gid 99, drops supplemental groups, and
clears the bounding set.
--text This option outputs the effective capabilities in text rather
than numerically.
--lock This prevents the ability for child processes to regain
privileges if the uid is 0.
SEE ALSO
filecap(8), capabilities(7)
AUTHOR
Steve Grubb