Bug 81959

Summary:	DOC: Misleading documentation for NoNewPrivileges about UID changes
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	intrigeri
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	intrigeri
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
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Description intrigeri 2014-07-31 10:27:24 UTC

Hi,

the section about NoNewPrivileges in systemd.exec(5) reads "it also prohibits UID changes of any kind". This lead me to believe that the daemon started by a unit file that enables NoNewPrivilege could not change its UID (e.g. to drop root privileges), which is apparently not the case, as Ansgar Burchardt kindly explained to me on https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756604#10.

Thanks a lot for writing and maintaining systemd,
Cheers!

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2016-11-24 01:00:18 UTC

Fixed in d974f949f10d6945e1abe9bc6525e676bc515928

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