PSCAP:(8)

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💖 PSCAP 💖 — it's the pscap page from the System Administration Utilities, bestie

🌸 NAME 🌸

pscap — a program to see capabilities 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pscap [ -a ] [ -p pid ] [ --tree ]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so pscap is literally a program that prints out a whole report of process capabilities. if an application has any capabilities at all, it's showing up in that report. no capabilities, no entry. that's the vibe.

if you hand it a pid with the -p command line option, then only the process you specified with that pid gets reported. just the one. main character only. 💅

and listen — if a process is not in the report, it's because it dropped all of its capabilities. periodt.

if a process has partial capabilities, pscap digs deeper and examines it further to see if it's got an open-ended bounding set. if that turns out to be true, a + symbol gets added. and if the process has ambient capabilities, an @ symbol gets added. little glyphs, big meaning. ✨

heads up: the command name in the output may be followed by an asterisk mark (*). that mark denotes processes which run in child user namespaces — relative to the user namespace of pscap itself. iykyk. 🌈

🦋 the options, one by one 🦋

  • -a — it's in the synopsis, bestie. the page does not spill the tea on what it does, so i am not about to make something up. it exists, it's listed, that's the whole story. 💀
  • -p pid — give it a pid and only the process specified with that pid is reported. one process, one report. 🎀
  • --tree — this one makes the output get mapped into a tree structure so you can study the relationships between processes and see what capabilities might be leaked to child processes. in tree mode, every process label is shown as command(pid:account). it's giving family tree but for capabilities. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Steve Grubb 🫶

written by Red Hat, March 2026 🌸 stay capable out there, bestie, and remember — if you're not in the report, you dropped everything and honestly? iconic. ✨💅🦋

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