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I tried adding cap_sys_admin permissions to user myroot.

For this, I added these lines to /etc/security/capabilities:

cap_sys_admin myroot
none *

and this line to /etc/pam.d/su:

auth            required        pam_cap.so

But user myroot doesn't have these permissions.

What can I do to add these permissions to my user?

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I believe the file is called /etc/security/capability.conf not /etc/security/capabilities. I was able to get this working like so:

$ cat /etc/security/capability.conf
cap_sys_admin   user1

And then adding pam_cap.so to PAM. NOTE: It's imperative that pam_cap.so come before the pam_rootok.so line.

$ cat /etc/pam.d/su
#%PAM-1.0
auth        optional    pam_cap.so
auth        sufficient  pam_rootok.so
...
...

Example

Here with the above in place if I run the following su command:

$ su - user1

I can verify this user's capabilities:

$ capsh --print
Current: = cap_sys_admin+i
Bounding set =cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_dac_read_search,cap_fowner,cap_fsetid,cap_kill,cap_setgid,cap_setuid,cap_setpcap,cap_linux_immutable,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_broadcast,cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw,cap_ipc_lock,cap_ipc_owner,cap_sys_module,cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_chroot,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_sys_pacct,cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_boot,cap_sys_nice,cap_sys_resource,cap_sys_time,cap_sys_tty_config,cap_mknod,cap_lease,cap_audit_write,cap_audit_control,cap_setfcap,cap_mac_override,cap_mac_admin,cap_syslog,35,36
Securebits: 00/0x0/1'b0
 secure-noroot: no (unlocked)
 secure-no-suid-fixup: no (unlocked)
 secure-keep-caps: no (unlocked)
uid=1001(user1)
gid=1001(user1)
groups=1001(user1)

The key line in that output:

Current: = cap_sys_admin+i

Packages

This was done on a CentOS 7.x box. I had these packages installed pertaining to capabilities:

$ rpm -qa | grep libcap
libcap-ng-utils-0.7.5-4.el7.x86_64
libcap-2.22-9.el7.x86_64
libcap-ng-0.7.5-4.el7.x86_64

They provide the following useful tools when dealing with capabilities:

$ rpm -ql libcap-ng-utils | grep /bin/
/usr/bin/captest
/usr/bin/filecap
/usr/bin/netcap
/usr/bin/pscap

$ rpm -ql libcap | grep /sbin/
/usr/sbin/capsh
/usr/sbin/getcap
/usr/sbin/getpcaps
/usr/sbin/setcap

NOTE: See the respective man pages for these tools if you need more info on their usage.

References

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