From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: othacehe@gnu.org, 54786@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54786: Installation tests are failing
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:18:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h74rg7ef.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d5sbmjt.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:00:54 +0200")
Hi Ludo,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> When using 'make-forkexec-constructor/container', the clone(2) call
>> happens before switching user, thus as 'root' in Shepherd, which
>> explains why it works.
>
> Damnit, that’s right. For example the result of:
>
> (lower-object (least-authority-wrapper (file-append coreutils "/bin/uname")
> #:namespaces (delq 'user %namespaces)))
>
> won’t run as an unprivileged user:
[...]
> I think we would add #:user and #:group to ‘least-authority-wrapper’ and
> have it call setuid/setgid. ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ doesn’t need to
> be modified, but the user simply won’t pass #:user and #:group to it.
OK! I'll adjust the jami-service-type when we get around to implement
the above; for now I've pushed my proposed fix which still uses
'make-forkexec-constructor/container' as
85b4dabd94d53f8179f31a42046cd83fc3a352fc.
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-11 4:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 9:51 bug#54786: Installation tests are failing Mathieu Othacehe
2022-04-08 15:10 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-04-28 7:22 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-04-28 19:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-29 19:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-04-30 13:02 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-05-01 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-25 3:43 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-05-28 21:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-31 16:44 ` bug#54786: [PATCH] services: jami: Modernize to adjust to Shepherd 0.9+ changes Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-01 9:54 ` bug#54786: Installation tests are failing Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-01 13:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-02 13:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 17:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-02 20:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-04 4:37 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-07 14:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-08 0:58 ` bokr
2022-06-11 4:18 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-08-09 14:20 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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