apptainer-capability - Man Page

Manage Linux capabilities for users and groups

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

apptainer capability

Description

Capabilities allow you to have fine grained control over the permissions that
 your containers need to run.

NOTE: capability add/drop commands require root to run. Granting capabilities
 to users allows them to escalate privilege inside the container and will
 likely give them a route to privilege escalation on the host system as well.
 Do not add capabilities to users who should not have root on the host system.

Options

-h, --help[=false] help for capability

Example

  All group commands have their own help output:

  $ apptainer help capability add
  $ apptainer capability add --help

See Also

apptainer(1), apptainer-capability-add(1), apptainer-capability-avail(1), apptainer-capability-drop(1), apptainer-capability-list(1)

History

14-Apr-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

Referenced By

apptainer(1), apptainer-capability-add(1), apptainer-capability-avail(1), apptainer-capability-drop(1), apptainer-capability-list(1).

Apr 2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra