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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-26 16:11:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-26 16:11:30 +0200 |
| commit | 7e52299f66d95021cad783c7fcf7cebb8ece0dfd (patch) | |
| tree | 32bee4f3c839a0a4aaa5593de764abd65bed7d59 /man7/user_namespaces.7 | |
| parent | 8a9fb19dbd1a033e3e0552b7bf8a754f9d7c8896 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7e52299f66d95021cad783c7fcf7cebb8ece0dfd.tar.gz | |
user_namespaces.7: CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows mounting cgroup filesystems
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120671
Reported-by: Michał Zegan <webczat_200@poczta.onet.pl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7 index 6ab9b7ede2..0de5137974 100644 --- a/man7/user_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7 @@ -262,6 +262,12 @@ and mount the following types of filesystems: .PD .RE .PP +Holding +.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN +within the user namespace associated with a process's cgroup namespace +allows (since Linux 4.6) +that process to mount cgroup filesystems. + Note however, that mounting block-based filesystems can be done only by a process that holds .BR CAP_SYS_ADMIN |