selinux breaks revisor

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 13:27:12 UTC 2008


Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> 2008/1/24 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>>> Maybe I missed that, but every /rpm/ is buildable by non-root.  It's
>>> when you start talking about /composing/ releases and Live images that
>>> root privs are needed (or enoug privs to make loopback devices).
>>
>> make loopback devices....  does fuse provide a non-root way to deal
>> with this here?
> 
> I think there are historical threads about the security/code-quality and 
> how it related to the decision of requiring root to add users to the 
> fuse group.  Sounded like fuse might get the job done someday, but 
> someday wasn't quite here yet.
> 
> Still, for doing composes as non-root I like my qemu 'qfakeroot', as it 
> handles everything nicely (but slowly).  I.e. I imagine running into 

What still prevents kqemu module being shipped with fedora? That speeds 
things tremendously!

Valent.




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