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From: Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 01:57:20
Message-Id: 20041001015717.GA10469@netswarm.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-root emerges by Luke-Jr
1 On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:20:32PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
2 > On Thursday 30 September 2004 2:04 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > Well, the issue is that without being root the file permissions in the
4 > > install stage will not be correct. The only even more secure option
5 > > besides the sandbox would be some kind of chroot with an overlay
6 > > filesystem. That would though require a nonstandard kernel module and as
7 > > such raise all kinds of other problems.
8 > Simply implementing sandbox as a kernel module would have the same security
9 > effect as such a chroot. Then, libsandbox (or whatever it's called) could
10 > simply use the module if available and fallback to the normal way if it's
11 > not...
12
13 Well i don't use modules on my servers and i sure wont start
14 using them only for portage.
15
16 Christian
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