Re: [PATCH 2/2] user namespaces: require cap_set{ug}id for CLONE_NEWUSER

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Personally the user namespace only becomes interesting when we
>> start to be able to move in the other direction and remove the
>> set of capabilities requires to create it.
>> 
>> Eric
>
> Agreed.  Now the thing is I don't think we need full userns
> support to get there.  We just need the targeted capabilities
> and the basic dummy fs support - that is, init_user_ns owns
> all vfsmounts, and anyone not in init_user_ns only gets
> user other access to files under those mounts.

Right.

> Of course complete support for targeted caps will in itself
> be a huge effort :)
>
> So my roadmap is: next address the per-user keyring, then
> the targeted caps.

Sounds good.

I expect this means we will pass through a period where the user
namespace is less useful than it is today.  But as it will be on
a much firmer foundation that is fine.

Eric

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