The edit_others_posts capability should allow users to set the author of a post.
At first glance you might reply that you don’t want your authors to be able to edit one another’s posts. The difference in ability is very subtle though: writing a post and then assigning it to another user isn’t much different from being able to write or edit that other user’s posts.
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