> On 14 May 2015, at 16:00, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 5/14/15 6:18 , Joe Malcolm wrote:
>> Yes, I figured this was the case - thanks for confirming. I knew it
>> was containerized, but not that it couldn't fork.
>> 
>> Out of curiousity, do the SmartOS orchestration tools (vmadm, etc.)
>> expose these additional limitations, such as disabling forking, in
>> some generic way, so they could be applied to non-kvm zones? Well, not
>> being able to fork may not be the most sensible example in general,
>> since that would make most zone applications impossible, but
>> presumably there's a general mechanism down there somewhere.
> 
> Yes, this is a part of the general privileges mechanism. If you want to
> deny the entire zone a set of privileges (I wouldn't do this for fork),
> then you can use the vmadm 'limit_priv' property.
> 
> However, what you'll find more useful is probably the libc interfaces
> for dropping privileges and the ppriv (http://illumos.org/man/1/ppriv)
> command which will let you make the change for an individual process and
> its children that you launch.

Would privileges apply to Linux processes running inside an LX branded zone?

Chris


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