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From 734c3a184c3b196412e15e4db1b7419f13b901b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:36:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] man: add AmbientCapabilities entry.
Cherry-picked from: ece8797
Resolves: #1387398
---
man/systemd.exec.xml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml
index aa5831cc2c..1b14ced788 100644
--- a/man/systemd.exec.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml
@@ -766,6 +766,35 @@
settings.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>AmbientCapabilities=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Controls which capabilities to include in the
+ ambient capability set for the executed process. Takes a
+ whitespace-separated list of capability names as read by
+ <citerefentry project='mankier'><refentrytitle>cap_from_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ e.g. <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>,
+ <constant>CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE</constant>,
+ <constant>CAP_SYS_PTRACE</constant>. This option may appear more than
+ once in which case the ambient capability sets are merged.
+ If the list of capabilities is prefixed with <literal>~</literal>, all
+ but the listed capabilities will be included, the effect of the
+ assignment inverted. If the empty string is
+ assigned to this option, the ambient capability set is reset to
+ the empty capability set, and all prior settings have no effect.
+ If set to <literal>~</literal> (without any further argument), the
+ ambient capability set is reset to the full set of available
+ capabilities, also undoing any previous settings. Note that adding
+ capabilities to ambient capability set adds them to the process's
+ inherited capability set.
+ </para><para>
+ Ambient capability sets are useful if you want to execute a process
+ as a non-privileged user but still want to give it some capabilities.
+ Note that in this case option <constant>keep-caps</constant> is
+ automatically added to <varname>SecureBits=</varname> to retain the
+ capabilities over the user change.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SecureBits=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Controls the secure bits set for the executed