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From: "José Maldonado" <josemald89@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:31:02
Message-Id: 576336A9.6090705@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? by James
1 El 16/06/16 a las 11:27, James escribió:
2 > One word SECURITY? Trust but verify does come to mind.
3 >
4
5 The snaps come to "replace" a lack of security that is in Linux, in
6 addition to facilitating the installation of all applications from the
7 user-space without root privileges.
8
9 >
10 > Is their a version that works on gentoo-hardened?
11 >
12
13 Hardened or not ... it's matter? What I see here is the "beloved" Mark
14 talking about a Snap support in Gentoo, and there Gentoo developers
15 working to make it official.
16
17 It's true? I don't know.
18
19
20 > Were are all the security gurus on at on snaps? Do snaps require systemd
21 > or are they PID-1 agnostic?
22 >
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25 Supposedly it is agnostic to PID, asking only have some active features
26 in the kernel and SELinux or AppArmor using.
27
28 Currently, none of the mentioned MACs work as expected with Snap, even
29 in the Ubuntu itself.
30
31 --
32 Dios en su cielo, todo bien en la Tierra

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>