Clarify that the subid delegation can only come from one source.
Moreover, add an example of what might happen if the subid source is NSS
and useradd is executed.
Related: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/331
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>
* 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.
