Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:20:42
Message-Id: 200409301620.38392.luke-jr@utopios.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Thursday 30 September 2004 2:04 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > Well, the issue is that without being root the file permissions in the
3 > install stage will not be correct. The only even more secure option
4 > besides the sandbox would be some kind of chroot with an overlay
5 > filesystem. That would though require a nonstandard kernel module and as
6 > such raise all kinds of other problems.
7 Simply implementing sandbox as a kernel module would have the same security
8 effect as such a chroot. Then, libsandbox (or whatever it's called) could
9 simply use the module if available and fallback to the normal way if it's
10 not...
11 --
12 Luke-Jr
13 Developer, Utopios
14 http://utopios.org/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>