From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Non-privileged daemons and offloading
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:44:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZdmJnbOSikt7qybTtBdtnuZk=zR_6hXvy34=W0GSNi8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y460709u.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> The Nix daemon recently switch to user namespaces:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/c68e5913c71badc89ff346d1c6948517ba720c93
>
> We could backport this. However, running builds with UID 0 is
> potentially disruptive: some packages are sensitive to this and behave
> differently under UID 0 (I remember Coreutils’ test suite does.) Also,
> this patch switches to user namespaces, but not specifically
> _unprivileged_ user namespaces.
It should be possible to create a new user within the container (say,
UID 1000) and map it to a "guixbuild" user on the host system,
avoiding this problem.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-20 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-19 13:07 Non-privileged daemons and offloading Ben Woodcroft
2016-06-20 8:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-20 12:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-20 12:44 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2016-06-20 9:06 ` Roel Janssen
2016-07-30 4:11 ` Ben Woodcroft
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