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A new approach to user namespaces

A new approach to user namespaces

Posted Apr 14, 2012 19:25 UTC (Sat) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: A new approach to user namespaces by dottedmag
Parent article: A new approach to user namespaces

Not completely. fakeroot also fakes up mknod(), and we don't have namespaces for device numbers. But perhaps mknod() could be considered unprivileged on a filesystem mounted -o nodev?


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A new approach to user namespaces

Posted Apr 17, 2012 7:36 UTC (Tue) by trulyexcitingnickname-dontuthink (guest, #84181) [Link]

> But perhaps mknod() could be considered unprivileged on a filesystem mounted -o nodev?

This sounds like a nightmare. Using a more secure mount option make going back to the default insecure? That is sure sane---not.

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