Merge pull request #14621 from mheon/api_sec_notice

[CI:DOCS] Make it clear the REST API could be a security issue
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@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ The REST API provided by **podman system service** is split into two parts: a co
Documentation for the latter is available at *https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html*.
Both APIs are versioned, but the server will not reject requests with an unsupported version set.
Please note that the API grants full access to Podman's capabilities, and as such should be treated as allowing arbitrary code execution as the user running the API.
As such, we strongly recommend against making the API socket available via the network.
The default configuration (a Unix socket with permissions set to only allow the user running Podman) is the most secure way of running the API.
Note: The default systemd unit files (system and user) change the log-level option to *info* from *error*. This change provides additional information on each API call.
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