From: Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:43:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: repart: Add note about UIDs/GIDs of copied files and directories
X-Git-Tag: v253-rc1~25^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd53cc149ef007a31b8ed567b33ad7e7e9579da9;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

repart: Add note about UIDs/GIDs of copied files and directories
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diff --git a/man/repart.d.xml b/man/repart.d.xml
index 846e1984e59..b7862029057 100644
--- a/man/repart.d.xml
+++ b/man/repart.d.xml
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@
         target filesystem (e.g symlinks, fifos, sockets and devices on vfat). When an unsupported file type
         is encountered, repart will skip copying this file and write a log message about it.</para>
 
+        <para>Note that <command>systemd-repart</command> does not change the UIDs/GIDs of any copied files
+        and directories. When running <command>systemd-repart</command> as an unprivileged user to build an
+        image of files and directories owned by the same user, you can run <command>systemd-repart</command>
+        in a user namespace with the current user mapped to the root user to make sure the files and
+        directories in the image are owned by the root user.</para>
+
         <para>This option cannot be combined with <varname>CopyBlocks=</varname>.</para>
 
         <para>When