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From: Corey Minyard <tcminyard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Corey Minyard"
	<cminyard-Igf4POYTYCDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	"Bruno Prémont"
	<bonbons-ud5FBsm0p/xEiooADzr8i9i2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>,
	containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	"Linux Kernel"
	<linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move console redirect to pid namespace
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:50:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511E4B32.3030003@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2w29pdo.fsf-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

On 02/14/2013 10:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>>> With recent changes this is tied to the initial user namespace.  So the
>>> simple solution to this and so many other similiar security problems is
>>> to run your container in a user namespace.
>>>
>>> The permission check currently is capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) which requires
>>> the caller to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace.
>> I'm not sure I follow.  Are these changes in k.org, or in another
>> repository someplace?
> In k.org. 3.7 would work. 3.8-rcX would work even better.
>
> root in a user namespace does not have permission to call TIOCCONS.

Ok, that's good enough for me.  I don't have a compelling reason to make 
it work, beyond liking consistency.

Thank you,

-corey

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-15 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1360376920-30824-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org>
     [not found] ` <1360376920-30824-1-git-send-email-minyard-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-09 18:14   ` [PATCH] Move console redirect to pid namespace Bruno Prémont
     [not found]     ` <20130209191409.643c3d7f-hY15tx4IgV39zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-13 19:08       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]         ` <87r4kkuj4o.fsf-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-15  2:08           ` Corey Minyard
     [not found]             ` <511D9890.1040900-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-15  4:23               ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]                 ` <87d2w29pdo.fsf-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2013-02-15 14:50                   ` Corey Minyard [this message]

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