From: Corey Minyard <tcminyard@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>,
"Corey Minyard" <cminyard@mvista.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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@xmission.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-09 2:28 [PATCH] Move console redirect to pid namespace minyard
2013-02-09 18:14 ` Bruno Prémont
2013-02-13 19:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-15 2:08 ` Corey Minyard
2013-02-15 4:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-02-15 14:50 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
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