From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Walter Franzini <walter.franzini@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnu-system-demo feedback
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:10:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3hfipf8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iowzn7su.fsf@walter-nb.nord-com.it> (Walter Franzini's message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:20:17 +0200")
Walter Franzini <walter.franzini@gmail.com> skribis:
> On Mon, Oct 14 2013, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> 3. running guix gc as root empties /etc (broken symlinks)
>>> 4. running guix gc as guest (!) empties /etc (broken symlinks)
>>
>> A bug: I forgot to register them as GC roots (see gnu/system/vm.scm.)
>
> Ok for the bug about GC roots, but I expected a 'guest' not to be able
> to alter the system state (/etc).
Unprivileged users can access the store via the daemon. Notably, they
can run the GC.
The GC only ever deletes files that are no longer referenced. These
/etc files were clearly still referenced, but the GC just didn’t know
about it.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-12 21:36 gnu-system-demo feedback Walter Franzini
2013-10-14 12:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-14 16:20 ` Walter Franzini
2013-10-14 20:10 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-16 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-16 16:12 ` Walter Franzini
2013-10-16 16:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2013-10-13 18:43 Walter Franzini
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