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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Boqiao Fu <bfu@redhat.com>
Subject: [PULL 08/20] docs: Update description of 'user=username' for '-run-with'
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:03:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240717050331.295371-9-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240717050331.295371-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>

From: Boqiao Fu <bfu@redhat.com>

The description of '-runas' and '-run-with' didn't explain that QEMU
will use setuid/setgid to implement the option, so the user might get
confused if using 'elevateprivileges=deny' as well.

Since '-runas' is going to be deprecated and replaced by '-run-with'
in the coming qemu9.1, add the message there.

Signed-off-by: Boqiao Fu <bfu@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAFRHJ6J9uMk+HMZL+W+KE1yoRCOLPgbPUVVDku55sdXYiGXXHg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 qemu-options.hx | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index ad6521ef5e7..694fa37f284 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -5024,8 +5024,11 @@ SRST
     in combination with -runas.
 
     ``user=username`` or ``user=uid:gid`` can be used to drop root privileges
-    by switching to the specified user (via username) or user and group
-    (via uid:gid) immediately before starting guest execution.
+    before starting guest execution. QEMU will use the ``setuid`` and ``setgid``
+    system calls to switch to the specified identity.  Note that the
+    ``user=username`` syntax will also apply the full set of supplementary
+    groups for the user, whereas the ``user=uid:gid`` will use only the
+    ``gid`` group.
 ERST
 #endif
 
-- 
2.45.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-17  5:03 [PULL 00/20] i386, bugfix changes for QEMU 9.1 soft freeze Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 01/20] i386/sev: Don't allow automatic fallback to legacy KVM_SEV*_INIT Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 02/20] Revert "qemu-char: do not operate on sources from finalize callbacks" Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 03/20] cpu: Free queued CPU work Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 04/20] disas: Fix build against Capstone v6 Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 05/20] hw/scsi/lsi53c895a: bump instruction limit in scripts processing to fix regression Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 06/20] scsi: fix regression and honor bootindex again for legacy drives Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 07/20] qemu/timer: Add host ticks function for LoongArch Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 09/20] hpet: fix clamping of period Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 10/20] hpet: fix HPET_TN_SETVAL for high 32-bits of the comparator Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 11/20] target/i386/tcg: fix POP to memory in long mode Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 12/20] target/i386/tcg: Remove SEG_ADDL Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 13/20] target/i386/tcg: Allow IRET from user mode to user mode with SMAP Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 14/20] target/i386/tcg: use PUSHL/PUSHW for error code Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 15/20] target/i386/tcg: Reorg push/pop within seg_helper.c Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 16/20] target/i386/tcg: Introduce x86_mmu_index_{kernel_,}pl Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 17/20] target/i386/tcg: Compute MMU index once Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 18/20] target/i386/tcg: check for correct busy state before switching to a new task Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 19/20] target/i386/tcg: use X86Access for TSS access Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-17  5:03 ` [PULL 20/20] target/i386/tcg: save current task state before loading new one Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-18  0:07 ` [PULL 00/20] i386, bugfix changes for QEMU 9.1 soft freeze Richard Henderson

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