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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-05-05 23:23:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2020-05-07 16:35:20 +0200 |
| commit | 77a3cec0c715b6b08f9c9aafbd16b52bc7bb3a80 (patch) | |
| tree | 5be68a624cf9923e34d45a5c49f6df8bb2561439 /man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | |
| parent | 7dc6477dc941ff69a1cc6f31d22dcdd6f81521d3 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-77a3cec0c715b6b08f9c9aafbd16b52bc7bb3a80.tar.gz | |
man: document the new tmpfiles --root= behaviour regarding users
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml index 7720ef53fa..998fd0911b 100644 --- a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml +++ b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml @@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ <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> + <para>When this option is used, the libc Name Service Switch (NSS) is bypassed for resolving users + and groups. Instead the files <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> + inside the alternate root are read directly. This means that users/groups not listed in these files + will not be resolved, i.e. LDAP NIS and other complex databases are not considered.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |