Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:31:14 +0000 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns |
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Quoting Bastian Blank (bastian@waldi.eu.org): > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:31:52AM +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Bastian Blank (bastian@waldi.eu.org): > > > What is this flag used for anyway? I only see it used in the accounting > > > stuff, and if every user can get it, it is not longer useful. > > hm, I'm not sure... maybe noone is using it! > > This flag is from pre-git. > > The only information is: > | #define ASU 0x02 /* ... used super-user privileges */ > > However with your patches (or at least the goal), everyone is super-user > in derived namespaces.
No, a task just sitting in a derived ns won't necessarily need/use super-user privileges... (and, if we ever get far enough along, it won't even necessarily have CAP_SYS_ADMIN/etc targeted to the parent userns, bc it won't need those to do the unshares).
thanks, -serge
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