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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman-exec.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman-exec.1.md index d46427c91..fc67211d1 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman-exec.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman-exec.1.md @@ -43,7 +43,19 @@ Pass down to the process N additional file descriptors (in addition to 0, 1, 2). **--privileged** -Give the process extended Linux capabilities when running the command in container. +Give extended privileges to this container. The default is *false*. + +By default, Podman containers are +"unprivileged" and cannot, for example, modify parts of the operating system. +This is because by default a container is only allowed limited access to devices. +A "privileged" container is given the same access to devices as the user launching the container. + +A privileged container turns off the security features that isolate the +container from the host. Dropped Capabilities, limited devices, read/only mount +points, Apparmor/SELinux separation, and Seccomp filters are all disabled. + +Rootless containers cannot have more privileges than the account that launched them. + **--tty**, **-t** |