Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce user namespace capabilities
From: John Johansen
Date: Tue May 21 2024 - 09:58:20 EST
On 5/18/24 04:21, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Sat May 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Sat May 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Fri May 17, 2024 at 10:11 PM EEST, Jonathan Calmels wrote:
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:53:24AM GMT, Casey Schaufler wrote:
Of course they do. I have been following the use of capabilities
in Linux since before they were implemented. The uptake has been
disappointing in all use cases.
Why "Of course"?
What if they should not get *all* privileges?
They do the job given a real-world workload and stress test.
Here the problem is based on a theory and an experiment.
Even a formal model does not necessarily map all "unknown unknowns".
So this was like the worst "sales pitch" ever:
1. The cover letter starts with the idea of having to argue about name
spaces, and have fun while doing that ;-) We all have our own ways to
entertain ourselves but "name space duels" are not my thing. Why not
just start with why we all want this instead? Maybe we don't want it
then. Maybe this is just useless spam given the angle presented?
2. There's shitloads of computer science and set theory but nothing
that would make common sense. You need to build more understandable
model. There's zero "gist" in this work.
Maybe this does make sense but the story around it sucks so far.
One tip: I think this is wrong forum to present namespace ideas in the
first place. It would be probably better to talk about this with e.g.
systemd or podman developers, and similar groups. There's zero evidence
of the usefulness. Then when you go that route and come back with actual
users, things click much more easily. Now this is all in the void.
BR, Jarkko
Jarkko,
this is very much the right forum. User namespaces exist today. This
is a discussion around trying to reduce the exposed kernel surface
that is being used to attack the kernel.