Expand the documentation of "no-new-privileges"

The change to runc in https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/789
was not documented previously. Also say what this affects and clean
up layout of initial table as there was some miscolouration of the
continuation lines.

Signed-off-by: Justin Cormack <justin.cormack@docker.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3050d9af9b)
Signed-off-by: Tibor Vass <tibor@docker.com>
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Justin Cormack 2016-07-13 14:41:58 +01:00 committed by Tibor Vass
parent fc3d339109
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@ -630,10 +630,8 @@ with the same logic -- if the original volume was specified with a name it will
--security-opt="label=type:TYPE" : Set the label type for the container
--security-opt="label=level:LEVEL" : Set the label level for the container
--security-opt="label=disable" : Turn off label confinement for the container
--security-opt="apparmor=PROFILE" : Set the apparmor profile to be applied
to the container
--security-opt="no-new-privileges" : Disable container processes from gaining
new privileges
--security-opt="apparmor=PROFILE" : Set the apparmor profile to be applied to the container
--security-opt="no-new-privileges" : Disable container processes from gaining new privileges
--security-opt="seccomp=unconfined": Turn off seccomp confinement for the container
--security-opt="seccomp=profile.json: White listed syscalls seccomp Json file to be used as a seccomp filter
@ -665,7 +663,10 @@ privileges, you can execute the following command:
$ docker run --security-opt no-new-privileges -it centos bash
For more details, see [kernel documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt).
This means that commands that raise privileges such as `su` or `sudo` will no longer work.
It also causes any seccomp filters to be applied later, after privileges have been dropped
which may mean you can have a more restrictive set of filters.
For more details, see the [kernel documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt).
## Specifying custom cgroups