From: Cole Robinson Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 23:26:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: docs: storage: owner/group default to libvirtd UID/GID X-Git-Tag: v5.1.0-rc1~168 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e00771dfc30fde01ca14e1c6f1bafd831162a031;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git docs: storage: owner/group default to libvirtd UID/GID Commit fafcc818f changed the docs to say that when creating a pool directory or file volume with no owner/group specified, they will be inherited from the parent directory. This isn't correct now and doesn't seem to have ever been correct In reality default owner/group is whatever UID/GID libvirtd is running as Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson --- diff --git a/docs/formatstorage.html.in b/docs/formatstorage.html.in index 6ebd23549f..968651330f 100644 --- a/docs/formatstorage.html.in +++ b/docs/formatstorage.html.in @@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ The owner element contains the numeric user ID. The group element contains the numeric group ID. If owner or group aren't specified when - creating a directory, the values are inherited from the parent - directory. The label element contains the MAC (eg SELinux) + creating a directory, the UID and GID of the libvirtd process are used. + The label element contains the MAC (eg SELinux) label string. Since 0.4.1 For running directory or filesystem based pools, these fields @@ -776,8 +776,8 @@ The owner element contains the numeric user ID. The group element contains the numeric group ID. If owner or group aren't specified when - creating a supported volume, the values are inherited from the parent - directory. The label element contains the MAC (eg SELinux) + creating a supported volume, the UID and GID of the libvirtd process + are used. The label element contains the MAC (eg SELinux) label string. For existing directory or filesystem based volumes, these fields will be filled with the values used by the existing file.