Setcap Dsiallow Non-root User to Run pstack to Check Process Call Stack (Doc ID 2431727.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 08, 2018

Applies to:

Symptoms

• grant the necessary capabilities to executable and run it as non-root user:

# getcap <executable-bin>
= cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_raw+ep

• Now pstack on this running exe fails unless pstack is run as root
• But after removing the capabilities, pstack works fine for non-root user.

Cause

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