Constant CAP_SYS_ADMIN
pub const CAP_SYS_ADMIN: i32 = 21;
dep_nc
only.Expand description
Administration capacity.
Allow configuration of the secure attention key
Allow administration of the random device
Allow examination and configuration of disk quotas
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