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From: Stephen Frost (sfrost_at_snowman.net)
Date: Sun 17 Apr 2005 - 22:27:00 BST


* Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz_at_sigma-chemnitz.de) wrote:
> sfrost_at_snowman.net (Stephen Frost) writes:
> > It's not uncontrollable- just don't call NSS functions after you've
> > chroot'd.
>
> That's not possible. During the extraction phase, 'rpm' has to do
> an username -> uid mapping with the setup from the inside of the
> chroot. So at least there, I need getpwname() after chroot().

Is this inside the same process context which could get back out of the
vserver? Does it need to be? Either there's a serious problem with
vservers in general or there's a way to resolve these concerns.

        Stephen


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