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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:39:29 +0200
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nsenter: Allow selecting the uid and gid to be used in
 the entered userns
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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