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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-21 14:12:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-04-21 14:12:47 +0200 |
| commit | 314f7c114e351f485e3724fadb5110899201ae5d (patch) | |
| tree | b5844888b9d698f8064c969db8a4558ad05ebf3d /man7 | |
| parent | 485b33bf8cf9360d7904debf11952032c14a6c5a (diff) | |
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credentials.7: Alert reader that UID/GID changes can affect process capabilities
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7 index 85302bde20..3fdfc84508 100644 --- a/man7/credentials.7 +++ b/man7/credentials.7 @@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ when checking resource limits (see when checking the limit on the number of inotify instances that the process may create (see .BR inotify (7)). +.\" +.SS Modifying process user and group IDs .PP Subject to rules described in the relevant manual pages, a process can use the following APIs to modify its user and group IDs: @@ -312,6 +314,10 @@ filesystem user (group) ID. Changes to a process's effective user or group ID can also affect the process "dumpable" attribute, as described in .BR prctl (2). +.PP +Changes to process user and group IDs can affect the capabilities +of the process, as described in +.BR capabilities (7). .SH CONFORMING TO Process IDs, parent process IDs, process group IDs, and session IDs are specified in POSIX.1. |