Linux capabilities provide a subset of the available root privileges to a process. This effectively breaks up root privileges into smaller and distinctive units. Each of these units can then be independently be granted to processes.

# print capabilities
capsh --print
 
# examine a file's capabilities
getcap /usr/bin/ping
getcap `which ping`

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