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Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index edeaefe2c7..369ae81d7c 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 |