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diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index 31d7b1fd1d..fbf41f4926 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -660,6 +660,8 @@ The process must have the
.BR CAP_SETUID
.RB ( CAP_SETGID )
capability in the parent user namespace.
+This prevents an unprivileged process from mapping to arbitrary UIDs (GIDs)
+in the parent user namespace.
There is an exception to this requirement:
a process writing to
.I uid_map