Anyone can raise the niceness value. Only lowering requires CAP_SYS_NICE. $ nice -n +2 nice 2 $ nice -n -2 nice nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied 0 $ sudo nice -n -2 nice -2 Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man7/capabilities.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7 index 6254c0ac0..64a9f8e34 100644 --- a/man7/capabilities.7 +++ b/man7/capabilities.7 @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ drop capabilities from the system-wide capability bounding set. .PD 0 .RS .IP * 2 -Raise process nice value +Lower process nice value .RB ( nice (2), .BR setpriority (2)) and change the nice value for arbitrary processes; -- 2.25.4