Re: [PATCH] Move console redirect to pid namespace

[Corey Minyard]

On 02/14/2013 10:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > With recent changes this is tied to the initial user namespace.  So the
> > > simple solution to this and so many other similiar security problems is
> > > to run your container in a user namespace.
> > >
> > > The permission check currently is capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) which requires
> > > the caller to have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace.
> > I'm not sure I follow.  Are these changes in k.org, or in another
> > repository someplace?
> In k.org. 3.7 would work. 3.8-rcX would work even better.
>
> root in a user namespace does not have permission to call TIOCCONS.

Ok, that's good enough for me.  I don't have a compelling reason to make 
it work, beyond liking consistency.

Thank you,

-corey
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