Re: [lxc-users] Security question: root w/ subuids vs. unprivileged.

2014-11-28 Thread Raimund Berger
"Fajar A. Nugraha" writes: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Raimund Berger > > wrote: > >> I'm asking since, as root, I'm guessing it might be easier to map select >> devices - like OSS audio - into a container, even when mapping uids too, >> which seems to be pretty much impossible to do wi

Re: [lxc-users] Security question: root w/ subuids vs. unprivileged.

2014-11-27 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Raimund Berger wrote: > I'm asking since, as root, I'm guessing it might be easier to map select > devices - like OSS audio - into a container, even when mapping uids too, > which seems to be pretty much impossible to do with unprivileged > containers (for good r

[lxc-users] Security question: root w/ subuids vs. unprivileged.

2014-11-27 Thread Raimund Berger
Hi a brief question from somebody uninitiated: would, from a security point of view, running a privileged container with (mapped) subuids - and a subuid'ed root in particular - be roughly as good as running an unprivileged one? I mean, the processes running inside the container would still be unp