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People were running containers for a decade before rootless podman came around. There has been lot of sharp corners around userns and related tech that needed
by zokier 2y ago
People were running containers for a decade before rootless podman came around.
There has been lot of sharp corners around userns and related tech that needed to get resolved. Notably Debian& Ubuntu disabled unprivileged userns for some legitimate security concerns
- Aardwolf 2y agoI really don't get that: having to run something substantial as root seems a much bigger security concern, than what it is shielding from user space (example: hosting a web server at port 80)
- epr 2y agoFunny, the original commit message for that suggests it was simply a precaution. It's not out of the ordinary to avoid newer kernel features just in case. > This is a short-term patch. Unprivileged use of CLONE_NEWUSER is certainly an intended feature of user namespaces. However for at least saucy we want to make sure that, if any security issues are found, we have a fail-safe. from: https://web.archive.org/web/20211022013829/https://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/serge/ubuntu-saucy.git/commit/?id=5c847404dcb2e3195ad0057877e1422ae90892b8 https://web.archive.org/web/20211022013829/https://kernel.ub...