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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2017-11-16 04:00:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com> | 2017-11-16 12:00:56 +0900 |
| commit | 3e54b900e6a50770eae14e00b9f483955db78396 (patch) | |
| tree | e9dc227bc2c46884a121c59113389ea06eac424d /man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | |
| parent | 2bcbffd6db8efe8f0cc2f2b01d407a326247176d (diff) | |
| download | systemd-3e54b900e6a50770eae14e00b9f483955db78396.tar.gz | |
man: document interaction of --root= and the user/group databases (#7344)
Fixes: #7032
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml index c1aab51551..2b8927cb1e 100644 --- a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml +++ b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml @@ -148,12 +148,16 @@ specified prefix. This option can be specified multiple times.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> <term><option>--root=<replaceable>root</replaceable></option></term> - <listitem><para>Takes a directory path as an argument. All - paths will be prefixed with the given alternate - <replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including config search - paths. </para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Takes a directory path as an argument. All paths will be prefixed with the given alternate + <replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including config search paths.</para> + + <para>Note that this option does not alter how the users and groups specified in the configuration files are + resolved. With or without this option, users and groups are always resolved according to the host's user and + group databases, any such databases stored under the specified root directories are not + consulted.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" /> |