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man: newuid and newgid: point out that root must be allocated subuids
authorSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Mon, 9 Jun 2014 22:37:16 +0000 (17:37 -0500)
committerSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:41:09 +0000 (09:41 -0500)
commit980c8041536c5a3d27edcf0af85e8acf459dd6e5
tree317d95ade999cc85e33af9b18c651393d705b045
parent578947e6614aae91e2550c83790e79479b951e40
man: newuid and newgid: point out that root must be allocated subuids

Users may otherwise be confused and think that because the kernel
does not restrict uid mappings to the root user (within his
current uid mappings), newuidmap will ignore /etc/subuid for the
root user.  It will not.

Reported-by: Philippe Grégoire <gregoirep@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
man/newgidmap.1.xml
man/newuidmap.1.xml