doc: add man page for pam_cgfs

.gitignore

@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ config/sysconfig/lxc
 doc/*.1
 doc/*.5
 doc/*.7
+doc/*.8
 doc/ja/*.1
 doc/ja/*.5
 doc/ja/*.7

configure.ac

@@ -841,6 +841,8 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 	doc/lxc-usernsexec.sgml
 	doc/lxc-wait.sgml
 
+	doc/pam_cgfs.sgml
+
 	doc/lxc.conf.sgml
 	doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml
 	doc/lxc.system.conf.sgml

doc/Makefile.am

@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ man_MANS += lxc-attach.1 \
 	    lxc-wait.1
 endif
 
+if ENABLE_PAM
+man_MANS += pam_cgfs.8
+endif
+
 if ENABLE_COMMANDS
 man_MANS += lxc-update-config.1 \
 	    lxc-user-nic.1 \
@@ -64,8 +68,12 @@ endif
 	$(db2xman) $<
 	test "$(shell basename $@)" != "$@" && mv $(shell basename $@) $@ || true
 
+%.8 : %.sgml
+	$(db2xman) $<
+	test "$(shell basename $@)" != "$@" && mv $(shell basename $@) $@ || true
+
 lxc-%.sgml : common_options.sgml see_also.sgml
 
 clean-local:
-	$(RM) manpage.* *.7 *.5 *.1 $(man_MANS)
+	$(RM) manpage.* *.7 *.5 *.1 *.8 $(man_MANS)
 endif

doc/pam_cgfs.sgml.in

+<!--
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+lxc: linux Container library
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+Authors:
+Venkata Harshavardhan Reddy Allu <venkataharshavardhan_ven@srmuniv.edu.in>
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+
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC @docdtd@ [
+
+<!ENTITY seealso SYSTEM "@builddir@/see_also.sgml">
+]>
+
+<refentry>
+
+  <docinfo><date>@LXC_GENERATE_DATE@</date></docinfo>
+
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>pam_cgfs</refentrytitle>
+    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>pam_cgfs</refname>
+
+    <refpurpose>
+      cgroup management for unprivileged LXC containers.
+    </refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>pam_cgfs.so</command>
+      <arg choice="req">-c <replaceable>kernel_controller,name=named_controller</replaceable></arg>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para>
+      LXC has supported fully unprivileged containers since LXC 1.0.
+      Fully unprivileged containers are the safest containers and are run by
+      normal (non-root) users.  This is achieved by using user namespaces by
+      mapping between a range of UIDs and GIDs on the host to a different
+      (unprivileged) range of UIDs and GIDs in the container. That means the uid
+      0 (root) in the container is mapped to an unprivileged user id (something
+      like 1000000) outside of the container and only has rights on resources
+      that it owns itself.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Cgroup management of fully unprivileged containers means restricting the
+      resources used by these containers like limiting the CPU usage of a
+      container, or the number of processes it is allowed to spawn, or the
+      memory it is allowed to consume. It is clear that the fully
+      unprivileged containers are run by normal users and there is a need to
+      limit and manage resource consumption among the containers.
+      But unprivileged cgroup management is not easy with most init systems.
+      So, the pam_cgfs.so came into existence.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The <command>pam_cgfs.so</command> module can handle both pure cgroupfs v1
+      (<filename>/sys/fs/cgroup/$controller</filename>) and pure cgroupfs
+      v2 (<filename>/sys/fs/cgroup</filename>), as well as mixed mounts,
+      where some controllers are mounted in a standard cgroupfs v1 hierarchy
+      (<filename>/sys/fs/cgroup/$controller</filename>) and others in
+      cgroupfs v2 hierarchy (<filename>/sys/fs/cgroup/unified</filename>).
+      Writeable cgroups are either created for all controllers or, if specified,
+      for only controllers listed as arguments on the command line.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The cgroup created <filename>user/$user/n</filename> will be for the nth
+      session under cgroup kernel controller hierarchy.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Systems with a systemd init system are treated specifically, both with
+      respect to cgroupfs v1 and cgroupfs v2. For  both, cgroupfs v1 and
+      cgroupfs v2, the module checks whether systemd already placed the user in
+      a cgroup it created <filename>user.slice/user-$uid/session-n.scope
+      </filename> by checking whether $uid == login uid. If so, the login
+      user chown the <filename>session-n.scope</filename>, else a cgroup is
+      created as outlined above (<filename>user/$user/n</filename>) and chown it
+      to login uid. If the init system has already placed the login user inside
+      a session specific group, the <command>pam_cgfs.so</command> module is
+      smart enough to detect it and re-use the cgroup.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      In essence,  the <command>pam_cgfs.so</command> module takes care of
+      placing unprivileged (non-root) users into writable cgroups at login
+      and also cleaning up these cgroup hierarchies on logout, so they are free
+      to delegate resources to containers as needed that have been provided to
+      them.
+    </para>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+	  <varlistentry>
+	    <term> <option>-c <replaceable>controller-list</replaceable></option> </term>
+	   <listitem>
+	    <para>
+        Takes a string argument which sets the list of kernel controllers and
+        named controllers delimited by commas in-between “,”. Named controllers
+        need to be specified in the form “name=$namedcontroller”. Can use “all”
+        enable all cgroup resource controller hierarchies. Specifying “all” and
+        other controllers explicitly returns PAM_SESSION_ERR.
+      </para>
+	   </listitem>
+	  </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Module types provided</title>
+    <para>
+      Only <option>session</option> module type is provided (and needed).
+    </para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+
+    <title>Return Values</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Writeable cgroups have been created for the user.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>PAM_SESSION_ERR</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Failed to create writable cgroups for the user.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+
+    <title>Files</title>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>/etc/pam.d/common-session{,-noninteractive}</term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>
+            Default configuration is added at the end of these files.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>EXAMPLE</title>
+    <programlisting>
+session optional	pam_cgfs.so -c freezer,memory,named=systemd
+# default configuration
+# user writable cgroups are created under freezer, memory and named cgroup systemd hierarchies.
+# /sys/fs/cgroup/$controller/user/$user/n for freezer,memory.
+# /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/user.slice/user-$uid/session-n.scope for systemd.
+
+session optional	pam_cgfs.so -c all
+# user writable cgroups are created under all cgroup controllers.
+
+session optional	pam_cgfs.so -c all,memory,freezer
+# invalid argument and returns PAM_SESSION_ERR
+    </programlisting>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>See Also</title>
+
+    <simpara>
+      <citerefentry>
+      <refentrytitle><command>lxc-cgroup</command></refentrytitle>
+      <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>,
+
+      <citerefentry>
+      <refentrytitle><command>cgroups</command></refentrytitle>
+      <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>,
+
+      <citerefentry>
+      <refentrytitle><command>user_namespaces</command></refentrytitle>
+      <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>,
+
+      <citerefentry>
+      <refentrytitle><command>namespaces</command></refentrytitle>
+      <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>,
+
+      <citerefentry>
+      <refentrytitle><command>pam</command></refentrytitle>
+      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>
+    </simpara>
+
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Author</title>
+    <para>Venkata Harshavardhan Reddy Allu <email>venkataharshavardhan_ven@srmuniv.edu.in</email></para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
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