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1Allows a process to perform a somewhat arbitrary
2grab-bag of privileged operations. Over time, this
3capability should weaken as specific capabilities are
4created for subsets of CAP_SYS_ADMINs functionality:
5  - configuration of the secure attention key
6  - administration of the random device
7  - examination and configuration of disk quotas
8  - setting the domainname
9  - setting the hostname
10  - calling bdflush()
11  - mount() and umount(), setting up new SMB connection
12  - some autofs root ioctls
13  - nfsservctl
14  - VM86_REQUEST_IRQ
15  - to read/write pci config on alpha
16  - irix_prctl on mips (setstacksize)
17  - flushing all cache on m68k (sys_cacheflush)
18  - removing semaphores
19  - Used instead of CAP_CHOWN to "chown" IPC message
20    queues, semaphores and shared memory
21  - locking/unlocking of shared memory segment
22  - turning swap on/off
23  - forged pids on socket credentials passing
24  - setting readahead and flushing buffers on block
25    devices
26  - setting geometry in floppy driver
27  - turning DMA on/off in xd driver
28  - administration of md devices (mostly the above, but
29    some extra ioctls)
30  - tuning the ide driver
31  - access to the nvram device
32  - administration of apm_bios, serial and bttv (TV)
33    device
34  - manufacturer commands in isdn CAPI support driver
35  - reading non-standardized portions of PCI
36    configuration space
37  - DDI debug ioctl on sbpcd driver
38  - setting up serial ports
39  - sending raw qic-117 commands
40  - enabling/disabling tagged queuing on SCSI
41    controllers and sending arbitrary SCSI commands
42  - setting encryption key on loopback filesystem
43  - setting zone reclaim policy
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