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Readme Incorrect information about RHEL based systems. #91

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Run and install nix as user without root permissions. Nix-user-chroot requires
user namespaces to perform its task (available since linux 3.8). Note that this
is not available for unprivileged users in some Linux distributions such as
Red Hat Linux, CentOS when using the stock kernel. It should be
available in Ubuntu, Debian and Arch Linux.

Unprivileged Namespace support in RHEL family of Linux distributions:

  • RHEL 6.x
    • No Support
  • RHEL 7.x
    • 7.0 - 7.3 = no support
    • 7.4 - 7.9 = disabled by default
    • Enable instructions:
      • sudo sh -c 'echo user.max_user_namespaces=15000 >/etc/sysctl.d/90-max_user_namespaces.conf'
      • sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d /etc/sysctl.d/90-max_user_namespaces.conf
  • RHEL 8.x and 9.x
    • Enabled by default

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