About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Bodo Eggert (7eggert_at_gmx.de)
Date: Sat 28 May 2005 - 20:25:51 BST


On Sat, 28 May 2005, gary ng wrote:

> I am testing out vserver(1.2.10 on 2.4, not ready for
> 2.6 yet because of stability issue unrelated to
> vserver) and I am wondering what is the impact of
> giving CAP_SYS_ADMIN to it.
>
> Without it, I cannot mount within vserver but I see
> mount as a legitimate use like mounting CIFS/NFS or
> FUSE related file systems.

You can also mount filesystems containing device nodes. This would give
you root access to the host.

Secure user mounts are planned in the vanilla kernel, maybe they can be
adopted for vservers.

-- 
Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say:
45. Was that YOUR directory?
_______________________________________________
Vserver mailing list
Vserver_at_list.linux-vserver.org
http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver


About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view
[Next/Previous Months] [Main vserver Project Homepage] [Howto Subscribe/Unsubscribe] [Paul Sladen's vserver stuff]
Generated on Sat 28 May 2005 - 20:26:14 BST by hypermail 2.1.3