systemd-nspawn: Allow setting ambient capability set
The old code was only able to pass the value 0 for the inheritable and ambient capability set when a non-root user was specified. However, sometimes it is useful to run a program in its own container with a user specification and some capabilities set. This is needed when the capabilities cannot be provided by file capabilities (because the file system is mounted with MS_NOSUID for additional security). This commit introduces the option --ambient-capability and the config file option AmbientCapability=. Both are used in a similar way to the existing Capability= setting. It changes the inheritable and ambient set (which is 0 by default). The code also checks that the settings for the bounding set (as defined by Capability= and DropCapability=) and the setting for the ambient set (as defined by AmbientCapability=) are compatible. Otherwise, the operation would fail in any way. Due to the current use of -1 to indicate no support for ambient capability set the special value "all" cannot be supported. Also, the setting of ambient capability is restricted to running a single program in the container payload.
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