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On 05/29/2012 01:43 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: |
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> On Monday 28 May 2012 14:34:22 Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the |
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>> description from the make.conf(5) man page: |
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>> Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as |
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>> portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is also used). |
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>> The rationale for having the separate "usersandbox" setting, to enable |
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>> use of sys-apps/sandbox, is that people who enable userpriv sometimes |
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>> prefer to have sandbox disabled in order to slightly improve |
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>> performance. However, I would recommend to enable usersandbox by |
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>> default, for the purpose of logging sandbox violations. |
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>> Note that ebuilds can set RESTRICT="userpriv" if they require superuser |
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>> privileges during any of the src_* phases that userpriv affects. |
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>> |
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>> I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I don't |
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>> remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it |
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>> would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. Objections? |
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> |
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> I'm using usersync since a long time, how about add it too? |
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Yeah, I think that would be a good default too. I guess the portage |
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ebuild can do a recursive adjustment of $PORTDIR permissions in |
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pkg_postinst, in order to solve bug #277970 [1]. |
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For userpriv, it will have to do a similar recursive adjustment of |
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permissions for directories inside $DISTDIR (such as git-src and |
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svn-src), since userpriv causes src_unpack to run with lower privileges. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277970 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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