[systemd-commits] man/systemd-nspawn.xml

Lennart Poettering lennart at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu May 9 06:40:22 PDT 2013


 man/systemd-nspawn.xml |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit 2aba426ffb345408a461ed0ff6fba46e63ae625b
Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date:   Thu May 9 15:32:27 2013 +0200

    man: document that the kernel's audit subsystem is currently incompatible with nspawn containers

diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
index cab5990..d9fb899 100644
--- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml
@@ -142,6 +142,16 @@
                 might be necessary to add this file to the container
                 tree manually if the OS of the container is too old to
                 contain this file out-of-the-box.</para>
+
+                <para>Note that the kernel auditing subsystem is
+                currently broken when used together with
+                containers. We hence recommend turning it off entirely
+                when using <command>systemd-nspawn</command> by
+                booting with <literal>audit=0</literal> on the kernel
+                command line, or by turning it off at kernel build
+                time. If auditing is enabled in the kernel operating
+                systems booted in an nspawn container might refuse
+                log-in attempts.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>



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