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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 43650@debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:23:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eemk7ug8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929070624.GM1386@E5400> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue,  29 Sep 2020 10:06:24 +0300")

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> Shot in the dark, do the permissions/ownership on /var/empty matter?
> childhurd is far from the only user claiming /var/empty as home.

I don’t think so.  There’s code somewhere that ensures that /var/empty
is root-owned and read-only.

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-29 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-27 15:29 [bug#43650] [PATCH 0/8] Assorted childhurd improvements Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 2/8] services: childhurd: Tweak description Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 3/8] secret-service: Clarify the origin of messages Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 4/8] services: hurd-vm: Check whether /dev/kvm exists at run time Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-28 17:02     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-29 10:10       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-29 14:22         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-29 20:13           ` bug#43650: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 5/8] services: guix: Generate key pair if needed during activation Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 6/8] services: hurd-vm: Initialize the guest's SSH/Guix keys at activation time Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 7/8] services: hurd-vm: Pass "-no-reboot" when spawning the Hurd VM Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 15:32   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 8/8] secret-service: Add a timeout when waiting for a client Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-28 16:57   ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-28 22:19     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-29  7:06     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-09-29 10:23       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-09-28 17:10 ` [bug#43650] [PATCH 0/8] Assorted childhurd improvements Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-09-28 20:47   ` Ludovic Courtès

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