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Capabilities, a short intro
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 02 May 2013

Capabilities. You probably have heard of them already, but when you start developing SELinux policies, you'll notice that you come in closer contact with them than before. This is because SELinux, when applications want to do something "root-like", checks the capability of that application. Without SELinux, this either requires the …