Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-16 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There is probably something that could be probed. For example, all Android devices must be running 'zygote' since that's what starts all the other processes. .hc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
intrigeri: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote (12 Dec 2014 12:32:59 GMT) : First of all, please don't break threads. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by this. I think that Ivo meant that your previous email (54874ee7.9020...@eds.org) was a reply to his

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Right now, the package is only installable on systems that do not have the linux-image meta-package installed and are very likely to in a chroot. So that eliminates the majority of Debian installs as candidates where this

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-13 Thread intrigeri
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote (12 Dec 2014 12:32:59 GMT) : First of all, please don't break threads. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by this. I think that Ivo meant that your previous email (54874ee7.9020...@eds.org) was a reply to his (20141119190826.ga19...@ugent.be), but was lacking

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-12 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I hope you do not mean to dismiss the problems that I outlined, they are real, and this package as in solves them. So we are talking about a scenario where the perfect is the enemy in the good. The existing package has problems, but also solves real problems. You outlined two real problems: *

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-10 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, First of all, please don't break threads. On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:35:03PM +0100, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I think you don't understand the situation with the Android kernel. I think I do. There are hard-coded UIDs and GIDs in the kernel itself that represent the Android

Bug#769961: hard-coded UIDs and GIDs

2014-12-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Ivo, I think you don't understand the situation with the Android kernel. There are hard-coded UIDs and GIDs in the kernel itself that represent the Android permissions, and special Android processes. When running Debian on top of an Android kernel, those UIDs and GIDs cannot be changed.