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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-03-11 20:20:54 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-03-11 20:20:54 +0100
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man: improve nspawn's --user= documentation
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diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
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@@ -219,13 +219,15 @@
<term><option>-u</option></term>
<term><option>--user=</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Run the command
- under specified user, create home
- directory and cd into it. As rest
- of systemd-nspawn, this is not
- the security feature and limits
- against accidental changes only.
- </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>After transitioning
+ into the container, change to the
+ specified user defined in the
+ container's user database. Like all
+ other systemd-nspawn features, this is
+ not a security feature and provides
+ protection against accidental
+ destructive operations
+ only.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>