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From: Jacques Gelinas (jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca)
Date: Thu 02 Oct 2003 - 05:16:28 BST


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:05:03 -0500, Enrico Scholz wrote

> * provide secure vrpm/vapt-get wrappers which will be executed outside
> of the vserver and will not depend on content within the vserver. This
> is finished to 80% and in the CVS tree.

Package updates have to be done inside a vserver context. Unless you do that
malicious scripts in the package may break the integrity of the root server.
So you really have to enter a vserver before executing any package update.

Am I missing something ?

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Jacques Gelinas <jack_at_solucorp.qc.ca>
vserver: run general purpose virtual servers on one box, full speed!
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc


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