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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2020-09-16 12:04:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2020-09-16 12:04:55 +0000 |
| commit | b0fe68c13b04af8c098d53ea999bba6b7395163d (patch) | |
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Documentation fixes, by flexibeast
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diff --git a/doc/s6-envuidgid.html b/doc/s6-envuidgid.html index 9753d68..cb8e299 100644 --- a/doc/s6-envuidgid.html +++ b/doc/s6-envuidgid.html @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ to its numerical value, and the UID and GIDLIST variables will not be touched. < interpreted as <em>user<tt>:</tt>group</em>. The GIDLIST variable will not be touched. If <em>user</em> does not exist, the UID variable will be set to 0 unless a better default is provided with the <tt>-D</tt> option. -if <em>group</em> does not exist, the GID variable will be set to 0 unless a +If <em>group</em> does not exist, the GID variable will be set to 0 unless a better default is provided with the <tt>-D</tt> option. </li> <li> <tt>-n</tt> : numerical fallback. If <em>account</em> cannot be found in the user or group database, try to interpret the given values literally. @@ -65,19 +65,19 @@ will set UID to 0 and GID to 42. </li> an error message. This is the default. </li> <li> <tt>-D <em>uid</em>:<em>gid</em>:<em>gidlist</em></tt> : if <em>account</em> is unknown, use <em>uid</em>, <em>gid</em> and <em>gidlist</em> as the values for -UID and GID and GIDLIST. </li> +UID, GID and GIDLIST. </li> </ul> <h2> Notes </h2> <ul> <li> s6-envuidgid without options behaves like -<a href="http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envuidgid.html">envuidgid</a>, except that +<a href="https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envuidgid.html">envuidgid</a>, except that the exit code is 1 if <em>account</em> doesn't exist, and it also exports supplementary groups. </li> <li> s6-envuidgid is useful when running a program that must start as root but can drop its privileges later. Such a program can read its new uid/gid/groups info -from the UID, GID and GIDLIST environment variables. Superservers such as +from the UID, GID and GIDLIST environment variables. Super-servers such as <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/s6-tcpserver4.html">s6-tcpserver4</a> make use of this. </li> </ul> |