Re: What is /etc/subuid ?

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On 2019-10-09 15:47, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
Dear Experts,

Could someone enlighten me about the following file:

/etc/subuid

? This file appears to be owned by "setup" package. This is CentOS 7
system, and until now these files if existed were never changed. Today
I have added user quite routine way, by doing

/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 4500 [username]
/usr/sbin/useradd -g [username] -u 4500 -c "User Name, email@domain" [username]

And the file /etc/subuid changed and user was added into it:

[username]:100000:65536

Nothing like that was happening before. This is first time I create
account after update done on Oct 3, 2019. I checked several CentOS 7
machines, basically doing this:

 # grep subuid /usr/sbin/useradd
Binary file /usr/sbin/useradd matches

And CentOS 7 machines indeed may have that file name in the useradd
binary. None of CentOS 6 machines has that.

I tried to do FreeBSD-ism:

man /etc/subuid

came empty, and realized that I'm doing FreeBSD-ism.

I tried to do search on the web (did not "google", I use duckduckgo...
so I "did search"), and came pretty much empty.

Is it just me, or indeed something in CentOS 7 indeed changed? And what is it?

Another question on the same note: how do we find out what the file is
about and is used for in Linux, apart from searching on the web. (When
there are surprises like the one I had today, one does like to know
what this particular file is used for).


Thanks in advance for your answers.

A quick google search:

https://lmgtfy.com/?qtype=search&q=%2Fetc%2Fsubuid

yielded this as the first link:

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/subuid.5.html

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