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Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] add user namespace [try #2] [message #6242]

Tue, 12 September 2006 14:03

dev
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Herbert Poetzl wrote:

>>><<<< such checks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN mean that we can't use
>>>copy_xxx/clone_xxx functions directly
>>><<<< from OpenVZ code, since VE creation is done with dropped
>>>capabilities already.
>
>
> is there a good reason for doing so?
> I mean, Linux-VServer for example drops the capabilities
> at the end of initialization, right before spawning the
> guest init (or running the guest's runlevel scripts)
yes, there is a security reason.
default set of capabilities is saved on VE creation to
ve->cap_default. This is used to make sure that on VE 'enter'
a process moved between contexts won't leak capabilities to VE.

So when VE is created it should be known already which caps
to use.

>>><<<< (user level tools decide which capabilities should be granted
>>>to VE, so CAP_SYS_ADMIN
>>><<<< is not normally granted :) )
>>><<<< Can we move capability checks into some more logical place
>>>which deals with user, e.g. sys_unshare()?

Kirill

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