On 3 May 2015 at 04:43, Eirik Schwenke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 May 2015 22:44:48 CEST, Anders Ingemann <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi everybody! > > > >Just a quick update. > > > >bootstrap-vz now runs on a single master branch and the old github > >pages > >documentation has been removed (use bootstrap-vz.readthedocs.org > >instead). > > (...) > > Thanks for all the work on this tool! > > I was wondering; are there any plans to make it more usable as a regular > user? It seems it shouldn't be necessary to run it as root (at least not in > all use-cases)? > > Running this ss a regular user would make it more versatile for continuous > build of images etc. > > Perhaps there are ways to work with eg docker (or other cpio/tgz-based) > images w/o needing to run as root? > > Apologies if this is addressed in the documentation/roadmap. > > Best regards, > > Eirik Schwenke > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > are any plans to make it more usable as a regular user? I don't see how. Mounting loopback devices or any other devices for that matter, requires root privileges. Even if one were to just bootstrap to a directory, you'd still need to be able to change things in the chroot as uid 0, which you can only do as root. I am all ears regarding suggestions on how to circumvent that of course, but AFAIK this is not really possible. Anders
