Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/43] Completing the user namespace

[ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)]

Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sounds like you're reinventing (something very similar to)
> no_new_privs.  Why not just require no_new_privs as a prerequisite for
> creating a user namespace if you're unprivileged?

As I said in the part of my email you snipped, because no_new_privs will
break suid exec in the user namespace.

I am most definitely not going to require something that will make
implementing/using user namespaces almost pointless.

Eric
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