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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: nsswitch: do not reload if "/" changes
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:30:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7109c06d-5f0b-99a2-2aad-9c50bb89c0cb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeiinq4o.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On 1/18/21 11:53 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha:
> 
>> Can we create a non-test-container test for this?
>>
>> I think you can use support_become_root to unshare and then try
>> to use support_chroot_create/support_chroot_free and xhcroot to 
>> change root, and then try to do an NSS call that will fail?
> 
> You need to chroot twice, first to get a defined /etc/nsswitch.conf, and
> another one to make sure things don't ger reloaded after chroot.

That would be a perfect solution.

However, I think you could get away with recording some known uid/gid
from the system that was doing the build and then ensure that value
is not present in the container.

> You probably also have to copy different service modules into the two
> chroots.

Correct.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-16  0:59 DJ Delorie
2021-01-16 10:52 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18  1:13   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 10:47     ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:20       ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-19 16:37         ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-22 19:10           ` [v2] " DJ Delorie
2021-01-26  9:58             ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-26 16:19               ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-26 16:30                 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-26 16:47                   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-27 17:28                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-27 18:44                       ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28  0:31                         ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-28  0:34                           ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28  0:39                             ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-28  1:15                               ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 12:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-18 12:53   ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:27   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 15:59 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-18 16:53   ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-19 14:30     ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2021-01-19 14:40       ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:35   ` DJ Delorie

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