Re: /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid support

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Paul,

paul <goodoldpaul@autistici.org> skribis:

> I just sent a couple of patches [0] adding a full Scheme
> implementation of the bits of Shadow that read and write /etc/subuid
> and /etc/subgid, and some logic to handle generic requests from users
> that don't care about specific ranges but just want to have some
> subids .

I haven’t looked into the patch yet, but it sounds like a much needed
improvement to me.

Were you able to use ‘newuidmap’ etc. with this?  I experimented with it
a while back (specifically adding support for it in
‘call-with-container’) and found myself giving up before I could get it
to work.

Thanks,
Ludo’.