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Author SHA1 Message Date
Serge Hallyn
980c804153 man: newuid and newgid: point out that root must be allocated subuids
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>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-06-13 09:41:09 -05:00
Serge Hallyn
50bb452dd1 newuidmap.1 and newgidmap.1: note limitation
Note that they may be used only once for a given process.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
2013-08-23 15:16:43 -05:00
Nicolas François
29bd7e1929 Document checks performed by newgidmap/newuidmap
* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Document the checks performed before
	setting the mapping in /proc.
	* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise.
2013-08-13 19:38:41 +02:00
Nicolas François
e1a4b6e57b Document the semantic of ranges.
* libmisc/idmapping.h: Document what the upper and lower fields
	are in struct map_range.
	* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Document when the gid, gidlower and count
	argument are.
	* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise for uid, uidlower and count.
2013-08-13 19:28:07 +02:00
Nicolas François
eeab0bebfa Sort references alphabetically.
* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Sort references alphabetically.
	* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise.
2013-08-11 15:48:57 +02:00
Nicolas François
9fdd176e45 Remove copy-pasted NOTE.
* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Remove copy-pasted NOTE.
	* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise.
2013-08-06 21:01:53 +02:00
Nicolas François
95d1e146b2 Fix typos.
* man/login.defs.d/SUB_GID_COUNT.xml: Fix typo.
	* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Likewise.
	* man/login.defs.d/SUB_UID_COUNT.xml: Fix copy-paste issue from
	SUB_GID_COUNT.
	* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Fix Typo.
	* src/useradd.c: Fix typos.
	* lib/subordinateio.c: Fix typos.
2013-08-06 20:59:13 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
673c2a6f9a newuidmap,newgidmap: New suid helpers for using subordinate uids and gids
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
2013-08-05 10:08:46 -05:00