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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-26 15:20:40 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-09-12 14:04:45 +0100
commit1b1ebece3c01c803d372bfa79bad5a0c6d41302c (patch)
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parent6fee0ca3ba31cbcc8c5f9e08a040c1e40dd87ef5 (diff)
downloadman-pages-1b1ebece3c01c803d372bfa79bad5a0c6d41302c.tar.gz
kill.2: Note the user namespace requirement for CAP_KILL
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/kill.2 b/man2/kill.2
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--- a/man2/kill.2
+++ b/man2/kill.2
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ process group ID that the caller is permitted to signal.
For a process to have permission to send a signal
it must either be privileged (under Linux: have the
.B CAP_KILL
-capability), or the real or effective
+capability in the user namespace of the target process),
+or the real or effective
user ID of the sending process must equal the real or
saved set-user-ID of the target process.
In the case of