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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: kzak@redhat.com, util-linux@vger.kernel.org, davidlohr.bueso@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nsenter: Allow selecting the uid and gid to be used in the entered userns
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:39:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <517A1311.5000209@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u9yqf5d.fsf@xmission.com>

Am 26.04.2013 03:01, schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes:
>
>> Using -S (--setuid) and -G (--setgid) one can select
>> the uid/gid which will be used in the entered user namespace.
>
> There is definitely utility here.  I don't have a strong preference but
> I am inclined to suggest that you remove the set_uid and set_gid
> variables, and unconditionally call setuid and setgid when entering
> a user namespace.

I thought about that too. But this would introduce a behavior change.
Karel, are you fine with such a change?

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-26  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25 19:11 [PATCH] nsenter: Allow selecting the uid and gid to be used in the entered userns Richard Weinberger
2013-04-26  1:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-04-26  5:39   ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2013-05-06 15:39   ` Karel Zak
2013-06-18  8:41 ` Karel Zak
2014-02-06 13:00 ` Karel Zak

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