----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nikolai Kondrashov" <nikolai.kondras...@redhat.com> > To: "Development of the System Security Services Daemon" > <sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 1:22:29 PM > Subject: Re: [SSSD] Config file ownership and cwrap tests > > On 01/14/2015 08:09 PM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote: > > Using fakeroot is much better solution then adding hack with env variables. > > > > BTW fakeroot provides a fake root environment by means of LD_PRELOAD. > > The only disadvantage of fakeroot is that is not available on all > > platforms. > > (but there is not problem to prepare COPR repo) > > > > So basically there is not a big difference between fakeroot and other cwrap > > packages. > > Just an update: it's not all rainbows in the fakeroot land either. It's not > wrapping open()/create(). That means that all files sssd creates belong to > root under fakeroot (even though it can chown them to anything), which is not > compatible with --with-sssd-user. > > I'm also having some problem starting sssd as root under fakeroot. Something > to do with D-BUS sockets probably.
Does Fedora have union mounts (originally from Plan 9, AFAIK Linux calls this "unionfs" or "overlayfs") ? If "yes" then some stunts with unionfs and |chroot()| should be possible for testing. Let me know if I should dig-out the details... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) rma...@redhat.com \__\/\/__/ IPA/Kerberos5 team /O /==\ O\ (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ sssd-devel mailing list sssd-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/sssd-devel
