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On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:25 +0200, Ahmed Ammar wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 18:37 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote |
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> > useradd is a C program and my idea is to make it use the chroot() |
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> > system call. This system call changes the root directory for the |
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> > calling process. The chroot utility uses this system call, and then |
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> > executes a shell or other program inside the new root. The utility |
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> > will of course not work cross platform. |
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> > As long as the useradd C program does not rely on other executables |
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> > at runtime, which I severly doubt considering the nature of the |
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> > program, calling chroot() early in useradd would work regardless of |
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> > what binaries, if any, are inside the new root dir. useradd only |
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> > touches the user database text files. |
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> Sounds like a simple enough idea. Patches welcome? Might be worth |
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> looking at how Gentoo Prefix does it first though. |
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FYI. This is GLEP-0027 and it's not handled anywhere properly yet afaik. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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