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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2017-02-16 14:38:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2017-02-17 11:47:20 +0100 |
| commit | aa10469e17bd145c5d5c8c9b93438a0ee74d1ecf (patch) | |
| tree | 3e803986d57d6aff4b973dfa4e0ef9ad187c84b1 /man | |
| parent | 7f43928ba6258c66296614dd46ff7600e0e47b5f (diff) | |
man: document that user namespacing complicates file copies
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-nspawn.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml index 17c14e9f22..96f8c3a61f 100644 --- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml +++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml @@ -474,7 +474,12 @@ <para>Note that the picked UID/GID range is not written to <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> or <filename>/etc/group</filename>. In fact, the allocation of the range is not stored persistently anywhere, - except in the file ownership of the files and directories of the container.</para></listitem> + except in the file ownership of the files and directories of the container.</para> + + <para>Note that when user namespacing is used file ownership on disk reflects this, and all of the container's + files and directories are owned by the container's effective user and group IDs. This means that copying files + from and to the container image requires correction of the numeric UID/GID values, according to the UID/GID + shift applied.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |