From: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
gnome-os-list@gnome.org,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mclasen@redhat.com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devpts: Add ptmx_uid and ptmx_gid options
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:57:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427788642.4411.12.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427447013.2250.9.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On fre, 2015-03-27 at 10:03 +0100, James Bottomley
>
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > > It's currently impossible to mount devpts in a user namespace that
> > > has no root user, since ptmx can't be created.
>
> This is where I stopped reading because it's not true ... because it is
> possible, you just do it from the host as real root.
The point is being able to set up a container as a user, not requiring
the setup to be run as root at all. In my case container is a desktop
application which will be started by the user, and will run as the user.
There is no root involved in the call chain at all.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-31 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-21 1:04 [PATCH] devpts: Add ptmx_uid and ptmx_gid options Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-26 19:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-27 9:03 ` James Bottomley
2015-03-31 7:57 ` Alexander Larsson [this message]
2015-03-31 13:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-31 13:07 ` James Bottomley
2015-03-31 13:11 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-03-31 13:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-31 13:23 ` James Bottomley
2015-03-31 13:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-31 13:55 ` James Bottomley
2015-03-31 13:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-31 14:08 ` James Bottomley
2015-03-31 14:17 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-04-02 10:12 ` James Bottomley
2015-04-02 14:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-02 14:29 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-04-02 14:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-02 15:49 ` Serge Hallyn
2015-04-02 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-27 21:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-28 16:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-28 17:01 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-05-28 17:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-28 17:35 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-05-28 20:06 ` Alexander Larsson
2015-05-28 20:17 ` Kenton Varda
2015-05-28 21:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-05-28 17:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-28 19:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2016-03-08 4:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-08 9:16 ` Alexander Larsson
2016-03-08 18:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-05-18 21:04 ` Alexander Larsson
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