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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2022-12-23 22:53:07 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2022-12-23 22:53:07 +0000
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downloads6-2c61fb1d1ce85fe400a8668e85fc0da42813a45a.tar.xz
Refactor libs6auto, add s6-instance-maker (untested)
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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@@ -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>