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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-daemon --inetd
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:54:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <432AF8A8.6070807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbr2tqwl0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Later exchanges between you and HPA appeared to me that we would
> need a chroot environment which has "enough stuff" and that this
> patch may not help him very much.  Am I mistaken?
> 

Well, building a chroot environment which supports execing is a bit of a 
pain, but it's fully doable.  mount --bind especially makes that quite 
feasible.  It's just more work.

> I think resolving user and group to numeric before you do
> chroot() might make the setting up of chrooted environment a
> little simpler; no need for supporting getpwnam and getgrnam
> there.  On the other hand it may not matter -- you can always
> give numeric uid/gid to begin with.

Yes, resolve the username first.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-16 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15  6:04 git-daemon --inetd H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 18:30   ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 18:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:19       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 21:44           ` Martin Langhoff
2005-10-22 13:45             ` Jon Seymour
2005-10-22 21:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:57         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16  6:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16  7:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-16 16:54     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-16 17:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-16 18:23       ` H. Peter Anvin

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