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I'll forward it to our developer/sys-admin since it's him that doesn't |
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want to give me root access, yet want's me to make a livecd, because |
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I'm the one that's done it. unfortunately I'm not a developer so I |
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have little hope of implementing what your saying. |
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I appreciate your answer. However, I wish that developers would stop |
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assuming we all have developing abilities. mine are limited to basic |
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shell scripting. I may learn other scripting languages at some point |
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but I don't have time now, and this isn't that big of an issue. |
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I do appreciate however your explaining the exact technical |
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difficulties of the situation, because even thought I can't fix the |
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problem I understand it. |
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On 11/27/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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> Well, it was more of a theoretical "sure". And anyway, you seem to have missed |
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> the "can chroot" part of my reply. Normal users cannot chroot under "normal" |
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> setups. Also, your user would need to be able to create arbitrary bind mounts. |
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> Currently, the check that generates that error just checks the current UID and |
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> bombs if it's anything other than 0 (root). I'm sure if somebody (how about |
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> you?) contributed code to query the kernel for certain abilities (like |
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> chrooting), the catalyst developers would be more than happy to add it in to |
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> allow non-root catalyst use where the user has the necessary abilities. |
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> Caleb Cushing wrote: |
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> > I had access to what I think are all the files and directories needed. |
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> > I put everything in custom locations. that I could write to. but |
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> > catalyst complained I needed to be root. and it was catalyst not a |
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> > permission error. |
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> > |
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> > !!! catalyst: This script requires root privileges to operate |
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> > |
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> > On 11/27/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> As long as you run it as a user that has access to all the files/dirs |
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> >> that |
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> >> catalyst touches *and* can chroot (probably only doable through |
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> >> selinux and |
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> >> friends), sure :P |
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> >> |
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> >> Caleb Cushing wrote: |
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> >> > can catalyst be run without root access? |
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> -- |
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> Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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> Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus" |
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