Re: liblxc: lxc-debian

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Quoting Daniel Lezcano (dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org):
> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> Quoting Matt Helsley (matthltc-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org):
>>>         #
>>>         # Write some reasonable default device whitelist rules
>>>         #
>>>         cat - >> $CONFFILE <<-"EOF"
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.deny = a
>>>         # /dev/null and zero
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:3 rwm
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:5 rwm
>>>         # consoles
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:1 rwm
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:0 rwm
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:0 rwm
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:1 rwm
>>>         # /dev/{,u}random
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:9 rwm
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:8 rwm
>>>         # /dev/pts/* - pts namespaces are "coming soon"
>>>         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 136:* rwm
>>>         # rtc         lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 254:0 rwm
>>>         EOF
>>>
>>> The quotes around EOF prevent bash from doing any substitution on the
>>> file contents.
>
> I added these devices to the debian configuration file and fixed the  
> cgroup list order, "lxc.cgroup.devices.deny = a" was the last entry :/

Weird.  It's the first now I hope :)

> By default the debian has no root password, so the ssh connection will  
> always fail until a password is set for root. I will look on how to  
> change the root password to 'root' after debootstraping ...
>
> I added "lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:2 rwm"
> in order to use /dev/ptmx for the tty's ssh connection.
>
> The container is no longer able to create /dev/initctl, so the poweroff  
> command will fail. Serge do you know what is the syntax for the  
> devices.allow for initctl ?

initctl isn't a device, it's a fifo.  At least on my laptop.

thanks,
-serge