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Clarify uid range requirements
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Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Lourenço <[email protected]>
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rzlourenco committed Dec 4, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ This means johndoe is allocated UIDS 100000-165535 as well as his standard UID i
/etc/passwd file.

You should ensure that each user has a unique range of uids, because overlapping UIDs,
would potentially allow one user to attack another user.
would potentially allow one user to attack another user. In addition, make sure
that the range of uids you allocate can cover all uids that the container
requires. For example, if the container has a user with uid 10000, ensure you
have at least 10001 subuids.

You could also use the usermod program to assign UIDs to a user.

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