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Subject: [bug#31894] Containerize openntpd service
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:39:01PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:

[...]

>> One thing though: could you make sure containerization isn=E2=80=99t red=
undant
>> with what OpenNTPD already does?  Namely, could you grep the source for
>> calls to =E2=80=9Cchroot=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Cunshare=E2=80=9D, or =E2=80=
=9Cseccomp=E2=80=9D?  If it happens to be already
>> doing one of these things, it may be that using a container brings
>> little or nothing.
>>=20
>> If it=E2=80=99s OK, please push!
>
> From grepping the source:
>
> ./INSTALL-OpenNTPD always uses Privilege Separation (ie the majority of t=
he
> ./INSTALL:processing is done as a chroot'ed, unprivileged user).
>
> The code also supports the assertion.
>
> it defaults to /var/empty, unless the --with-privsep-path=3Dpath flag is
> set, so it looks like my patch is unnecessary after all. :)

Heh, alright.  Perhaps you=E2=80=99ll find another candidate for
containerization.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.