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| author | Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> | 2014-06-09 17:37:16 -0500 |
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| committer | Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> | 2014-06-09 17:45:37 -0500 |
| commit | 168ff8f37a0fdccd26774a9abeb50ed7660c9d3a (patch) | |
| tree | 317d95ade999cc85e33af9b18c651393d705b045 | |
| parent | 578947e6614aae91e2550c83790e79479b951e40 (diff) | |
man: newuid and newgid: point out that root must be allocated subuidsnewuidmap.root.man
Users may otherwise be confused and think that because the kernel
does not restrict uid mappings to the root user (within his
current uid mappings), newuidmap will ignore /etc/subuid for the
root user. It will not.
Reported-by: Philippe Grégoire <gregoirep@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/newgidmap.1.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/newuidmap.1.xml | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/newgidmap.1.xml b/man/newgidmap.1.xml index ad7a186e..3c1955ac 100644 --- a/man/newgidmap.1.xml +++ b/man/newgidmap.1.xml @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ <para> The <command>newgidmap</command> sets <filename>/proc/[pid]/gid_map</filename> based on it's command line arguments and the gids allowed in <filename>/etc/subgid</filename>. + Note that the root user is not exempted from the requirement for a valid + <filename>/etc/subgid</filename> entry. </para> <para> diff --git a/man/newuidmap.1.xml b/man/newuidmap.1.xml index 04bb14fc..e07414f1 100644 --- a/man/newuidmap.1.xml +++ b/man/newuidmap.1.xml @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ <para> The <command>newuidmap</command> sets <filename>/proc/[pid]/uid_map</filename> based on it's command line arguments and the uids allowed in <filename>/etc/subuid</filename>. + Note that the root user is not exempted from the requirement for a valid + <filename>/etc/subuid</filename> entry. </para> <para> |