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| author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2022-12-23 22:53:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com> | 2022-12-23 22:53:07 +0000 |
| commit | 2c61fb1d1ce85fe400a8668e85fc0da42813a45a (patch) | |
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Refactor libs6auto, add s6-instance-maker (untested)
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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diff --git a/doc/s6-setuidgid.html b/doc/s6-setuidgid.html index 95e0e2d..eb4e7f6 100644 --- a/doc/s6-setuidgid.html +++ b/doc/s6-setuidgid.html @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ s6-setuidgid executes a program as another user. </pre> <ul> + <li> If <em>account</em> is the empty string, then s6-setuidgid directly execs +into <em>prog...</em> without any state changes. </li> <li> If <em>account</em> contains a colon, it is interpreted as <em>uid:gid</em>, else it is interpreted as a username and looked up by name in the account database. </li> @@ -41,10 +43,10 @@ according to the group database. </li> <h2> Notes </h2> -<p> - s6-setuidgid can only be run as root. Its main use is to drop root privileges before -starting a daemon. -</p> +<ul> + <li> Unless <em>account</em> is empty, s6-setuidgid can only be run as root. Its main use +is to drop root privileges before starting a daemon. </li> +</ul> </body> </html> |