[systemd-commits] README

Lennart Poettering lennart at kemper.freedesktop.org
Sun Jun 1 00:35:46 PDT 2014


 README |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit e15007bc0ee16a193684c2a9e60ded137eed5b0c
Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date:   Sun Jun 1 09:35:19 2014 +0200

    README: document the new "systemd-network" user we require for systemd-networkd

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0031fac..0ea5043 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ USERS AND GROUPS:
         will drop privileges (with the exception of CAP_SYS_TIME) and
         assume this uid/gid for security reasons.
 
+        The network management daemon requires the "systemd-network"
+        system user and group to exist. During execution this network
+        facing service will drop privileges (with the exception of
+        CAP_NET_*) and assumed this uid/gid for security reasons.
+
 WARNINGS:
         systemd will warn you during boot if /etc/mtab is not a
         symlink to /proc/mounts. Please ensure that /etc/mtab is a



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