diff options
| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-02-26 13:46:35 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-09-13 20:15:59 -0700 |
| commit | 1d5adb6f9e747f42f718858603d1c04878180ce0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e5de72feebe4c71bc84d3c8360172c03b053cba /man7/namespaces.7 | |
| parent | 5eb7f09d7c93f4b4d536fc12e33dfd9f5f0fe801 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1d5adb6f9e747f42f718858603d1c04878180ce0.tar.gz | |
namespaces.7: Userns creation associates eff. GID of creator with the userns
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/namespaces.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/namespaces.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index 9873cc7627..45966e04bd 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -566,7 +566,9 @@ namespaces as well. .\" * The owner of the user namespace in the parent of the .\" * user namespace has all caps. When a user namespace is created, the kernel records the effective -user ID of the creating process as being the "owner" of the namespace. +user ID of the creating process as being the "owner" of the namespace, +and likewise associates the effective group ID of the creating process +with the namespace. A process whose effective user ID matches that of the owner of a user namespace and which is a member of the parent namespace (or a further removed namespace that is a direct ancestor) |