Quoting James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 16:00 -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 03:02:08PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > /etc/usernamespaces > > > > > > and the format be ::: > > > > > > … > > > > > > If this sounds OK to people, I can code up a utility that does this, > > > which should probably belong in util-linux. > > > > This sounds a lot like shadow's newuidmap and newgidmap [1,2,3]. > > > > Cheers, > > Trevor > > > > [1]: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/673c2a6f9aa6c69588f4c1be08589b8d3475a520 > > [2]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/newuidmap.1.html > > [3]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/subuid.5.html > > I think that mostly works. No-one's packaging it yet, which is why I https://packages.debian.org/jessie/uidmap https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/yakkety/+package/uidmap http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/45/idpl/28763248/numer/1/nazwa/newuidmap > didn't notice. It also looks like the build dependencies have vastly > expanded, so I can't get it to build in the build service yet. > > It looks like the only addition it needs is the setgroups flag for > newgidmap, which the security people will need, so I can patch that. > Plus it's trying to install newgidmap/newuidmap as setuid root rather > than cap_setuid/cap_setgid, but that's fixable in the spec file. That would prevent it being installed inside user namespaces, until the user namespaced file capabilities (see separate thread :) hit. -serge _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
