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From: Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>
To: Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution
	<guix-devel@gnu.org>, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: Login to a guix container
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 01:41:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9aa892b1c2ec59b15417a5871f1b83d481ab3419@hey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210124220544.kmsf3atiouj6zci7@thebird.nl>

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On January 24, 2021, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
> I was just thinking that it should be possible to login with ssh into
> a GNU Guix shell running in a container that gets fired up by the
> sshd. I am thinking about a safe shell for fetching files. If this
> works no chroot setup is required.
>
> Or is this a really dumb idea :)

I haven't seen any serious audit investigating security properties of
Guix containers. I do not think it's dumb to try this as an experiment,
but I do think it would be malpractice to trust user data with this
system before appropriately thorough evaluation.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-25  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-24 22:05 Login to a guix container Pjotr Prins
2021-01-25  1:41 ` Ryan Prior [this message]
2021-01-25  7:29   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-01-25  8:30     ` Pjotr Prins
2021-01-25 11:01       ` Ricardo Wurmus

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