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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Build grub.xen.
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:36:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212173643.GH1431@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaD8JM_cUCb46GZs8=Ct-M15FHcD_X7tgiq8=570T9cyWs=bA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> No I meant full access to just obe of guest partitions. E.g. FTP may be
> using separate partition and non-admins may have control over it. If system
> has some kind of automatic user creation and /home is separate someone may
> register as boot or grub and put grub.xen in his directory. If /tmp is on
> separate partition and not in RAM then everybody can put grub.xen to
> /tmp/grub/grub.xen

Oh, right.  Perhaps we could just look in a limited set of devices, e.g.
(xen/xvda) or (xen/xvda1)?  I'm not very familiar with how
multi-partition Xen guests are typically set up.  How is the root
partition generally designated at the moment?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-12 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-12 15:36 [PATCH 0/4] Turn-key PV-GRUB2 installation Colin Watson
2013-12-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add an option to exclude devices from search results Colin Watson
2013-12-13 12:27   ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-13 13:18     ` Colin Watson
2013-12-13 15:40       ` [PATCH] add --boot-directory option to grub-mkstandalone Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-20 12:16         ` Colin Watson
2013-12-21 10:29           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-21 10:37             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-22 17:20     ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add an option to exclude devices from search results Jordan Uggla
2013-12-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] Accept environment variables on the command line for Xen Colin Watson
2013-12-12 15:48   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-12 16:11     ` Colin Watson
2013-12-12 16:15       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 16:13     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 17:12       ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-12 17:58         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 19:12           ` Colin Watson
2013-12-12 19:50             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] Build grub.xen Colin Watson
2013-12-12 16:24   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 16:39     ` Colin Watson
2013-12-12 16:45       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 16:49         ` Fwd: " Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 17:36         ` Colin Watson [this message]
2013-12-12 17:41           ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-12-12 18:08             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-13 11:56   ` Colin Watson
2013-12-13 12:19     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-12 15:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] Improve installation on Xen Colin Watson
2013-12-12 16:23   ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-13 11:58     ` Colin Watson
2013-12-16 11:42 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Turn-key PV-GRUB2 installation Ian Campbell
2013-12-16 12:05   ` Samuel Thibault

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