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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-02-25 05:43:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-09-13 20:15:59 -0700 |
| commit | fd4eb520d6162461df53e745ce8970c830d7851b (patch) | |
| tree | e20f1956f659697d4a9943b7846176d44ab5f205 /man7/namespaces.7 | |
| parent | aa497420661db6f683618d24e4817dd3d49ae5bc (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fd4eb520d6162461df53e745ce8970c830d7851b.tar.gz | |
namespaces.7: srcfix: Added FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7 index e005c664d4..158a764598 100644 --- a/man7/namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/namespaces.7 @@ -673,6 +673,18 @@ The writing process must have the .RB ( CAP_SETGID ) capability in the user namespace of the process .IR pid . +.\" FIXME(Eric): +.\" Something isn't quite right in the description here. +.\" Suppose UID 1000 creates a user namespace. At this point, UID 0 in +.\" the parent namespace can write a map of (say) '0 1000 10' to uid_map. +.\" That succeeds. But how is that case covered in the three rules here? +.\" In other words, how does UID 0 in the parent namespace have any +.\" capabilities in the new child namespace? Somewhere on the page, +.\" I think there needs to be a statement about the privileges of +.\" UID 0 when no mapping has yet been defined, right? +.\" Or is it simply the case that UID 0 in the parent namespace +.\" always has all capabilities in the child namespace? +.\" .IP 2. The writing process must be in either the user namespace of the process .I pid |