Following the discussion https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/345
I have changed the documentation to clarify the behaviour of subid
delegation when any subid source except files is configured.
Clarify that the subid delegation can only come from one source.
Moreover, add an example of what might happen if the subid source is NSS
and useradd is executed.
Related: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/331
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>
* libmisc/idmapping.h: Document what the upper and lower fields
are in struct map_range.
* man/newgidmap.1.xml: Document when the gid, gidlower and count
argument are.
* man/newuidmap.1.xml: Likewise for uid, uidlower and count.
Iker Pedrosa
Serge Hallyn
towerpark
Serge Hallyn
Tobias Stoeckmann
Sebastian Rasmussen
Serge Hallyn
Nicolas François
Eric W. Biederman