You can get a copy of the defunct POSIX draft specification for capabilities, ACLs and some other interesting things here: http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/ If you are looking for ACL patches for kernels, take a look here: http://acl.bestbits.at/download.html As for this site, things that can be found here are: Regular libcap (support for 2.6.x linux capabilities): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.6/ To get the full experience, you should be sure to enable the experimental filesystem capability support. There is a git tree for libcap here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libcap/libcap.git More info in http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/README Earlier experiments with file capabilities are to be found in: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/old Cheers Andrew 2007/11/08