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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-10-20 09:35:40 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-10-20 09:35:40 -0400
commit8fdea26c94b22149040b8f29c8df7a92a50e0588 (patch)
tree9ca032131872ae87a374fc5ce9052f23687a2736 /man
parent332c0d48a9ba18e1601f072d4cb513751f8990f9 (diff)
parent47da760efddc1fae8dac460430efd0ae7090c6c4 (diff)
Merge pull request #4414 from poettering/consolesakcomment
three minor fixes: document /dev/console/SAK handling + another cgroups wording fix + document User= default
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/machinectl.xml19
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.exec.xml9
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml
index eaa247714b..0d57c01765 100644
--- a/man/machinectl.xml
+++ b/man/machinectl.xml
@@ -343,18 +343,13 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><command>show</command> [<replaceable>NAME</replaceable>...]</term>
- <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more registered
- virtual machines or containers or the manager itself. If no
- argument is specified, properties of the manager will be
- shown. If a NAME is specified, properties of this virtual
- machine or container are shown. By default, empty properties
- are suppressed. Use <option>--all</option> to show those too.
- To select specific properties to show, use
- <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be
- used whenever computer-parsable output is required, and does
- not print the cgroup tree or journal entries. Use
- <command>status</command> if you are looking for formatted
- human-readable output.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Show properties of one or more registered virtual machines or containers or the manager
+ itself. If no argument is specified, properties of the manager will be shown. If a NAME is specified,
+ properties of this virtual machine or container are shown. By default, empty properties are suppressed. Use
+ <option>--all</option> to show those too. To select specific properties to show, use
+ <option>--property=</option>. This command is intended to be used whenever computer-parsable output is
+ required, and does not print the control group tree or journal entries. Use <command>status</command> if you
+ are looking for formatted human-readable output.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index 7453aa7bee..dbe4594730 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -141,8 +141,13 @@
<term><varname>Group=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Set the UNIX user or group that the processes are executed as, respectively. Takes a single
- user or group name, or numeric ID as argument. If no group is set, the default group of the user is used. This
- setting does not affect commands whose command line is prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ user or group name, or numeric ID as argument. For system services (services run by the system service manager,
+ i.e. managed by PID 1) and for user services of the root user (services managed by root's instance of
+ <command>systemd --user</command>), the default is <literal>root</literal>, but <varname>User=</varname> may be
+ used to specify a different user. For user services of any other user, switching user identity is not
+ permitted, hence the only valid setting is the same user the user's service manager is running as. If no group
+ is set, the default group of the user is used. This setting does not affect commands whose command line is
+ prefixed with <literal>+</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>