man: document interaction of --root= and the user/group databases (#7344)

Fixes: #7032
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Lennart Poettering 2017-11-16 04:00:56 +01:00 committed by Yu Watanabe
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specified prefix. This option can be specified multiple
times.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--root=<replaceable>root</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a directory path as an argument. All
paths will be prefixed with the given alternate
<replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including config search
paths. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Takes a directory path as an argument. All paths will be prefixed with the given alternate
<replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including config search paths.</para>
<para>Note that this option does not alter how the users and groups specified in the configuration files are
resolved. With or without this option, users and groups are always resolved according to the host's user and
group databases, any such databases stored under the specified root directories are not
consulted.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />