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diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7 index 1e3beadf58..2af6d7a103 100644 --- a/man7/user_namespaces.7 +++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7 @@ -29,9 +29,11 @@ user_namespaces \- overview of Linux user_namespaces For an overview of namespaces, see .BR namespaces (7). -User namespaces isolate security-related identifiers, in particular, +User namespaces isolate security-related identifiers and attributes, +in particular, user IDs and group IDs (see .BR credentials (7), +the root directory, keys (see .BR keyctl (2)), .\" FIXME: This page says very little about the interaction @@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ user namespace, even if the new namespace is created or joined by the root user (i.e., a process with user ID 0 in the root namespace). + Note that a call to .BR execve (2) will cause a process to lose any capabilities that it has, |