Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:29:35 -0500 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace |
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Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): > Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes: > > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 21:45 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> I think for filesystems like /proc and /sys that there will normally > >> be problems. However many of those problems can be rationalized away > >> as a reasonable optimization, or are not immediately apparent. > > > > Could you talk about some of these problems? > > Already mentioned but. rw permissions on sensitive files are for > uid == 0. No capability checks are performed.
As Herbert (IIRC) pointed out that could/should be fixed.
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