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document CAP_SYS_ADMIN required for systemd PrivateNetwork #6682

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* As of Fedora 31 defaults to cgroup V2, which has full support of rootless cgroup management. Note this requires the --cgroup-manager within rootless containers to use systemd, which new containers will get by default.
* Some system unit configuration options do not work in the rootless container
* systemd fails to apply several options and failures are silently ignored (e.g. CPUShares, MemoryLimit). Should work on cgroup V2.
* Use of certain options will cause service startup failures (e.g. PrivateNetwork).
* Use of certain options will cause service startup failures (e.g. PrivateNetwork). The systemd services requiring `PrivateNetwork` can be made to work by passing `--cap-add SYS_ADMIN`, but the security implications should be carefully evaluated. In most cases, it's better to create an override.conf drop-in that sets `PrivateNetwork=no`. This also applies to containers run by root.
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* Can not share container images with CRI-O or other rootfull users
* Difficult to use additional stores for sharing content
* Does not work on NFS or parallel filesystem homedirs (e.g. [GPFS](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN/gpfs_welcome.html))
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