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Expand Up @@ -24,4 +24,18 @@ The difference between libcap and libcap-ng is that libcap-ng is a library that
provides helps for taking care of POSIX libcap in simpler manner.


Building Requirements
---------------------

Every executable binary that requires to have capabilities attributes enabled.

The way to set capabilities is to use `setcap` command that arrive from `libcap`.

```shell
$ sudo setcap CAP_ .... <executable>
```

Without using `setcap`, the executable will not gain any required permission.



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