linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] implement OA2_CRED

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Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 14:53:23 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, Stas Sergeev <stsp2@...dex.ru>, 
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, 
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...ba.org>, 
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, 
	Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>, 
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, 
	Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] implement OA2_CRED_INHERIT flag for openat2()

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:35 PM David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> > So I want a way to give *an entire container* access to a directory.
> > Classic UNIX DAC is just *wrong* for this use case.  Maybe idmaps
> > could learn a way to squash multiple ids down to one.  Or maybe
> > something like my silly credential-capturing mount proposal could
> > work.  But the status quo is not actually amazing IMO.
>
> Isn't that what gids are for :-)

I dunno.  How, exactly, is a regular non-root user of a Linux computer
supposed to configure gids in their home directory so that a container
(which uses subgids, possibly dynamically allocated) gets access to
the correct thing?  And why should that poor user need to think about
this at all?

--Andy