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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-08-16 01:57:52 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-08-18 01:38:14 +0200
commit6486faa95642d6e443efef01eaacc68664aeca47 (patch)
treee7e2c28ac28d2e0186ff8b7b9af729ed9c253e69 /man7
parent525a8b546128a7eb0794b276a6bfa2763fe2f657 (diff)
downloadman-pages-6486faa95642d6e443efef01eaacc68664aeca47.tar.gz
user_namespaces.7: Minor wording improvement
Mainly in preparation for the following patch on project IDs maps. Add some words that will make the parallels between the rules for updating uid_map and projid_map clearer. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/user_namespaces.74
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7
index 6af6c787ad..3bba32cb56 100644
--- a/man7/user_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ files.
The lines written to
.IR uid_map
.RI ( gid_map )
-must conform to the following rules:
+must conform to the following validity rules:
.IP * 3
The three fields must be valid numbers,
and the last field must be greater than 0.
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ Writes that violate the above rules fail with the error
In order for a process to write to the
.I /proc/[pid]/uid_map
.RI ( /proc/[pid]/gid_map )
-file, all of the following requirements must be met:
+file, all of the following permission requirements must be met:
.IP 1. 3
The writing process must have the
.BR CAP_SETUID