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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-08-19 19:05:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-08-19 19:06:39 +0200 |
| commit | 8530dc4467691a893aa2e07319b18a84fec96cad (patch) | |
| tree | ee5e6242a52b57b6a47ff86e5c731100e7a7240a /man | |
| parent | 81163121e649523b4071f67ddc03c2db649036c5 (diff) | |
tmpfiles: add new 'r' line type to add UIDs/GIDs to the pool to allocate UIDs/GIDs from
This way we can guarantee a limited amount of compatibility with
login.defs, by generate an appopriate "r" line out of it, on package
installation.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/sysusers.d.xml | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysusers.d.xml b/man/sysusers.d.xml index 1832ecf0e6..18c71db63e 100644 --- a/man/sysusers.d.xml +++ b/man/sysusers.d.xml @@ -134,6 +134,25 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting> will be implicitly created.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>r</varname></term> + <listitem><para>Add a range of + numeric UIDs/GIDs to the pool + to allocate new UIDs and GIDs + from. If no line of this type + is specified the range of + UIDs/GIDs is set to some + compiled-in default. Note that + both UIDs and GIDs are + allocated from the same pool, + in order to ensure that users + and groups of the same name + are likely to carry the same + numeric UID and + GID.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> </refsect2> @@ -154,6 +173,10 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting> <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines this field should contain the user name to add to a group.</para> + + <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname> + this field should be set to + <literal>-</literal>.</para> </refsect2> <refsect2> @@ -175,6 +198,14 @@ u root 0 "Superuser" /root</programlisting> <para>For <varname>m</varname> lines this field should contain the group name to add to a user to.</para> + + <para>For lines of type <varname>r</varname> + this field should be set to a UID/GID range in + the format <literal>FROM-TO</literal> where + both values are formatted as decimal ASCII + numbers. Alternatively, a single UID/GID may + be specified formatted as decimal ASCII + numbers.</para> </refsect2> <refsect2> |