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Message-ID: <1427788642.4411.12.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:57:22 +0200
From: Alexander Larsson <alexl@...hat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, gnome-os-list@...me.org,
Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
mclasen@...hat.com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devpts: Add ptmx_uid and ptmx_gid options
On fre, 2015-03-27 at 10:03 +0100, James Bottomley
>
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> > > It's currently impossible to mount devpts in a user namespace that
> > > has no root user, since ptmx can't be created.
>
> This is where I stopped reading because it's not true ... because it is
> possible, you just do it from the host as real root.
The point is being able to set up a container as a user, not requiring
the setup to be run as root at all. In my case container is a desktop
application which will be started by the user, and will run as the user.
There is no root involved in the call chain at all.
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