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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-02-19 03:59:01 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-09-13 20:15:58 -0700
commitcfc50babe7501eedd858f245f724e057b9a9ce06 (patch)
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parented0ce71a3157361a39014d46db7b752667f82515 (diff)
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namespaces.7: Violating rules for writing to user namespace map file yields EPERM
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
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@@ -671,6 +671,9 @@ The process must be in either the user namespace of the process
.I pid
or inside the parent user namespace of the process
.IR pid .
+.PP
+Writes that violate the above rules fail with the error
+.BR EPERM .
.SS UTS namespaces (CLONE_NEWUTS)
UTS namespaces provide isolation of two system identifiers:
the hostname and the NIS domain name.