From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Use cases for multiple uid mapping?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 01:06:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200901060631.GA5193@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh6eiyv7.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:17:16AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> We had a discussion in the hackroom at LPC talking about use cases for
> a shiftfs style setup where there are different mappings of uids to
> disk.
>
> In the discussion we had a couple of ideas of kernel developments
> we should look at that address some of these.
>
> - Fix rlimits in user namespaces (This potentially allows multiple
> containers to run with the same userids simplifying the mapping
> problem).
>
> - Look at extending kuid_t to 64bits and using the highbits to
> implement uids that are private to user namespaces and don't
> map out.
>
> - Look at ways for allowing setgroups unprivileged.
>
>
> Together this has the potential that the existing uid & gid mappings
> will be able to function the same as the proposed fusid mappings. Fingers crossed.
>
>
> I had some problems with audio and a lot of people were talking
> quickly. So I did not manage to capture everyone's use cases. And I
> definitely was not able to see how everyone's use cases interacted with
> the changes we are looking at.
>
> I know for certain I missed Serge's usecase (apologies).
>
> Can people follow up to this and report their use cases?
Sorry - I'll do so later this week.
> There are some real challenges and I would like to see if we
> can solve them, while avoiding scary problems like changing
> uids on write.
>
> Eric
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-28 15:17 Use cases for multiple uid mapping? Eric W. Biederman
2020-08-28 15:55 ` Stéphane Graber via Containers
2020-08-28 17:03 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-08-30 5:48 ` James Bottomley
2020-09-01 6:06 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2020-09-01 14:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-09-24 17:09 ` Alban Crequy
2020-09-25 8:13 ` Christian Brauner
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