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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 15:12:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-09-12 16:54:36 +0100 |
| commit | fb03f4addc3f55a54d3ee12a9871bb8fcc6d93c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e78f38f52c38da27c723a4f29668e4a6b5ca921 /man2/setresuid.2 | |
| parent | 6f22721ecb5b7e8fc53a5888744c6105e7a32c9c (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb03f4addc3f55a54d3ee12a9871bb8fcc6d93c5.tar.gz | |
setresuid.2: Note user namespace requirements for CAP_SETUID
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/setresuid.2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/setresuid.2 b/man2/setresuid.2 index b54c140b24..bc422b41c9 100644 --- a/man2/setresuid.2 +++ b/man2/setresuid.2 @@ -102,8 +102,17 @@ One or more of the target user or group IDs is not valid in this user namespace. .TP .B EPERM -The calling process is not privileged (did not have the \fBCAP_SETUID\fP -capability) and tried to change the IDs to values that are not permitted. +The calling process is not privileged (did not have the necessary +capability in its user namespace) +and tried to change the IDs to values that are not permitted. +For +.BR setresuid (), +the necessary capability is +.BR CAP_SETUID ; +for +.BR setresgid (), +it is +.BR CAP_SETGID . .SH VERSIONS These calls are available under Linux since Linux 2.1.44. .SH CONFORMING TO |