Updated dockerd docs with note about user namespaces

Signed-off-by: Lewis Daly <lewisdaly@me.com>

Updated uid/gid reference to be more canonical - and signed commit

Signed-off-by: Lewis Daly <lewisdaly@me.com>

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I tried my hand at rewriting this a bit for readability. Can you please verify that the facts are correct, especially about the permission changes? You can feel free to squash my commit with yours so that it's signed. You'll need to pull the change from your fork to work on it locally.

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I tried my hand at rewriting this a bit for readability. Can you please verify that the facts are correct, especially about the permission changes? You can feel free to squash my commit with yours so that it's signed. You'll need to pull the change from your fork to work on it locally.
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@ -993,6 +993,19 @@ with user namespaces enabled or not. If the daemon is configured with user
namespaces, the Security Options entry in the response will list "userns" as namespaces, the Security Options entry in the response will list "userns" as
one of the enabled security features. one of the enabled security features.
#### Behavior differences when user namespaces are enabled
When you start the Docker daemon with `--userns-remap`, Docker segregates the graph directory
where the images are stored by adding an extra directory with a name corresponding to the
remapped UID and GID. For example, if the remapped UID and GID begin with `165536`, all
images and containers running with that remap setting are located in `/var/lib/docker/165536.165536`
instead of `/var/lib/docker/`.
In addition, the files and directories within the new directory, which correspond to
images and container layers, are also owned by the new UID and GID. To set the ownership
correctly, you need to re-pull the images and restart the containers after starting the
daemon with `--userns-remap`.
### Detailed information on `subuid`/`subgid` ranges ### Detailed information on `subuid`/`subgid` ranges
Given potential advanced use of the subordinate ID ranges by power users, the Given potential advanced use of the subordinate ID ranges by power users, the