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| author | Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> | 2017-09-15 18:10:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> | 2018-04-26 16:29:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2c42f1e80103cb926c0703d4c1ac1fb9c3e2c600 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a70bba42c024c87a4fdc8a43c64c7bbcf462c41 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | f0a2171bf9f35b0430e18676a688b2c985f8917a (diff) | |
os-posix: Provide new -runas <uid>:<gid> facility
This allows the caller to specify a uid and gid to use, even if there
is no corresponding password entry. This will be useful in certain
Xen configurations.
We don't support just -runas <uid> because: (i) deprivileging without
calling setgroups would be ineffective (ii) given only a uid we don't
know what gid we ought to use (since uids may eppear in multiple
passwd file entries with different gids).
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index ca4e412f2f..5fbf966292 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -3765,7 +3765,8 @@ ETEXI #ifndef _WIN32 DEF("runas", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_runas, \ - "-runas user change to user id user just before starting the VM\n", + "-runas user change to user id user just before starting the VM\n" \ + " user can be numeric uid:gid instead\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) #endif STEXI |