On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:44:50PM -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:29:52PM -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy 
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>Is it possible to somehow use mount --bind from within a vserver?
> >>(vs1.28).
> >
> >not in a secure way with the 2.4 stable branch, but
> >it is with recent 2.6 (vs1.9.x) devel branch ...
> 
> Could you please elaborate on this?
> 
> On 1.9.3-rc2.1/latest utils I see that I can mount after I give the 
> context SYS_ADMIN bcap, but that doesn't seem like a wise thing in a web 
> hosting scenario (our case) - is there some other way?

yes, giving VXC_SECURE_MOUNT (a context capability) 
without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN (linux capability) will
allow for 'secure' mounts (including --bind mounts)
inside a vserver ...

HTH,
Herbert

> Thanks,
> 
> Grisha
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