Re: [PATCH 14/32] capabilities.7, user_namespaces.7: describe CAP_SETFCAP

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Hello Kir, Alex,

On 7/28/21 10:19 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man7/capabilities.7    | 6 ++++++
>  man7/user_namespaces.7 | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
> index 9f8f0087f..2f9c9a61e 100644
> --- a/man7/capabilities.7
> +++ b/man7/capabilities.7
> @@ -349,6 +349,12 @@ write a group ID mapping in a user namespace (see
>  .TP
>  .BR CAP_SETFCAP " (since Linux 2.6.24)"
>  Set arbitrary capabilities on a file.
> +.IP
> +.\" commit db2e718a47984b9d71ed890eb2ea36ecf150de18

Thank you for including the commit; that's always really helpful!

> +Since Linux 5.12, this capability is
> +also needed to map uid 0 (as in
> +.BR unshare\ -Ur ,
> +.RB see unshare (1).
>  .TP
>  .B CAP_SETPCAP
>  If file capabilities are supported (i.e., since Linux 2.6.24):
> diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7
> index 518e7a3bb..3378b6057 100644
> --- a/man7/user_namespaces.7
> +++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7
> @@ -577,6 +577,12 @@ or be in the parent user namespace of the process
>  The mapped user IDs (group IDs) must in turn have a mapping
>  in the parent user namespace.
>  .IP 4.
> +.\" commit db2e718a47984b9d71ed890eb2ea36ecf150de18
> +If a writing process is root (i.e. UID 0) trying to map host user ID 0,
> +it must have
> +.B CAP_SETFCAP
> +capability (since Linux 5.12).
> +.IP 5.
>  One of the following two cases applies:
>  .RS
>  .IP * 3

Thanks for the patch. I've applied.

Cheers,

Michael



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Michael Kerrisk
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