On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:27:12PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Douglas McClendon wrote: > >Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >>2008/1/24 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >>>Maybe I missed that, but every /rpm/ is buildable by non-root. It's > >>>when you start talking about /composing/ releases and Live images that > >>>root privs are needed (or enoug privs to make loopback devices). > >> > >>make loopback devices.... does fuse provide a non-root way to deal > >>with this here? > > > >I think there are historical threads about the security/code-quality and > >how it related to the decision of requiring root to add users to the > >fuse group. Sounded like fuse might get the job done someday, but > >someday wasn't quite here yet. > > > >Still, for doing composes as non-root I like my qemu 'qfakeroot', as it > >handles everything nicely (but slowly). I.e. I imagine running into > > What still prevents kqemu module being shipped with fedora? That speeds > things tremendously! It is buggy as hell and no one is actively working on fixing it, and it is not guarenteed secure Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
