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On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:39, Chris L. Mason wrote: |
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> Okay, just checked the man page for make.conf: |
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> userpriv |
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> Allow portage to drop root privledges and compile |
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> pack- ages as portage:portage without a sandbox (unless user- sandbox |
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> is also used). |
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> That looks useful, however, I think it would be more secure to always |
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> run *without* root permissions, then acquire them when needed (i.e. |
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> *just* for the merge to root.) Also, that allows people to call |
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> emerge as a regular user, without having to su to root. |
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Well, the issue is that without being root the file permissions in the |
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install stage will not be correct. The only even more secure option |
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besides the sandbox would be some kind of chroot with an overlay |
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filesystem. That would though require a nonstandard kernel module and as |
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such raise all kinds of other problems. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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