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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
To: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	serue@us.ibm.com, dhowells@redhat.com, kzak@redhat.com
Subject: Re: chroot(2) and bind mounts as non-root
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:19:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324221552.21713.7.camel@lenny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQRfL4_zWAp3ZUM2GXKaw_6ofEfLUGs9WypD9qi_-15MeQx0Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 17:22 -0800, Andrew G. Morgan wrote:

> I don't read any issues with this in your original post. What I read
> there is that you want to run a build in a chroot environment. Are you
> also implying that the user gets to build this chroot filesystem from
> nothing - without any privileges - 

Yes.  The filesystem is owned by the user.  

> If the former, then yes I think you are going to have a very hard
> time.

Well, it already works with the setuid program I attached earlier.
So...what are we trying to accomplish in this discussion? 

If you think there's a way to allow users to chroot *without* cutting
off setuid binaries, I am definitely interested in that.  However I'm
very, very skeptical.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-07 17:54 chroot(2) and bind mounts as non-root Colin Walters
2011-12-07 19:36 ` John Stoffel
2011-12-08 16:10   ` Colin Walters
2011-12-08 18:14     ` John Stoffel
2011-12-08 18:26       ` Colin Walters
2011-12-09  0:49         ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2011-12-09 14:55         ` John Stoffel
2011-12-09 15:06           ` Colin Walters
2011-12-08 17:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-12-08 17:15     ` Colin Walters
2011-12-07 19:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-12-08 16:58   ` Colin Walters
2011-12-07 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-12-07 20:54   ` Alan Cox
2011-12-15 18:55     ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-12-16 15:44       ` Colin Walters
2011-12-18  1:22         ` Andrew G. Morgan
2011-12-18 15:19           ` Colin Walters [this message]
2011-12-10  5:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-12-12 16:41   ` Colin Walters
2011-12-12 23:11     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-12-15 20:56       ` Colin Walters
2011-12-16  6:14         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-12-18 16:01           ` Colin Walters
2011-12-19  0:55             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-12-19  4:06               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2011-12-19  9:22                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-12-20 16:49                   ` Colin Walters
2011-12-20 21:23               ` Colin Walters
2011-12-21 18:15           ` Steve Grubb
2012-01-03 23:13             ` Eric W. Biederman

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