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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-09-08 15:46:17 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-09-27 09:19:02 +0200
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man: cross-reference DeviceAllow= and PrivateDevices=
They are somewhat similar, but not easy to discover, esp. considering that they are described in different pages. For PrivateDevices=, split out the first paragraph that gives the high-level overview. (The giant second paragraph could also use some heavy editing to break it up into more digestible chunks, alas.)
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@@ -928,6 +928,11 @@ RestrictNetworkInterfaces=~eth1</programlisting>
url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/devices.html">Device Whitelist Controller</ulink>.
In the unified cgroup hierarchy this functionality is implemented using eBPF filtering.</para>
+ <para>When access to <emphasis>all</emphasis> physical devices should be disallowed,
+ <varname>PrivateDevices=</varname> may be used instead. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+
<para>The device node specifier is either a path to a device node in the file system, starting with
<filename>/dev/</filename>, or a string starting with either <literal>char-</literal> or
<literal>block-</literal> followed by a device group name, as listed in