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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: option to have qemu chroot() into the targe


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Re: option to have qemu chroot() into the target filesystem
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:09:58 +0300

On 10/25/08, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008 04:21:29 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>  > A patch was in this thread:
>  > http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg16297.html
>  >
>  > Rob promised to respin it tomorrow and resend it in to the list.
>  > thanks
>
>  The debian bug report in question is:
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415996
>
>  I checked and the old patch still applies cleanly (well, with an offset, but
>  no fuzz).  I applied it and then did an svn diff, the result of which is
>  attached.  (As with all svn diffs, it applies with "patch -p0 -i blah.patch")
>
>  It's actually a very simple patch, which does this:
>
>  A) Teach qemu-$TARGET to do a chdir() plus chroot() in response to a -chroot
>  command line option.
>
>  B) Because A) requires root access, teach qemu-$TARGET to change uid and gid
>  via a -su option (and set both the real and effective user IDs so it's
>  actually dropping priviledges).

Because the UID change happens at argument parse stage, doesn't the
chrooting fail if the -su option is specified in the command line
before -chroot?




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