From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <18b3292d4159b1f0650e3483e5388081@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:47:35 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3db9485a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i think the right solution to this problem is to run a password server at a known "address" that is independent of namespace. only the c library needs to know about this. (there are other unix traditions than can be kept in a world were normal users can mount and bind this way.) - erik On Tue Apr 18 14:53:50 CDT 2006, leimy2k@gmail.com wrote: > On 4/18/06, Russ Cox wrote: > > > A masking bind over /etc/passwd could be disasterous > > > on Unix and I don't think anyone has really solved this problem yet > > > > this is trivial to solve. setuid binaries should run > > in the default system name space instead of inheriting > > the one in use where they are started. > > > > russ > > Hmmm, anyone spoken to Al Viro about this?