From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Mar 05 13:58:34 2019 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Mar 2019 18:58:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33453 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGs-0004wj-7G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:34 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47840) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGq-0004wV-KN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:33 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:45599) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGl-0001l3-Dn for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:27 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGk-0005nh-8L for bug-Guix@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:27 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,HTML_MESSAGE, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGj-0001cw-45 for bug-Guix@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:26 -0500 Received: from h2712310.stratoserver.net ([81.169.247.85]:60136 helo=mail.florian-thevissen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1FGi-0001Ai-LK; Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:58:25 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.florian-thevissen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77CE920451; Tue, 5 Mar 2019 18:57:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=florian-thevissen.de; s=default; t=1551812263; h=from:from:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=y3nLF6uR49iUTQ/Zv6B63aPRkroKvpi+qIf+KgK9V3E=; b=xk09K7LgxohDyedZYYfrZceU+OK6gSK/VQdow+fpX2O2STm4Tbv9dKc3rzluq8N7NGN3k5 0BcNIKo22VLoEKkw4sU7B2TsIYjEwsdnUfWCfA6UtAF3foXcADWPl5kCQFaV3CHIAsBXDA Uph48NvkuETH6jUsbqu35iLMVGyEDhA= Subject: Re: bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0) To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= References: <81415b97-6e02-33dc-a4da-b1b046d5a4e7@florian-thevissen.de> <87lg1unwje.fsf@gnu.org> From: Florian Thevissen Message-ID: <3ecb593e-49d1-e728-4a48-d4eaf9a675d2@florian-thevissen.de> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:57:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87lg1unwje.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------D359429A0A6A4E876CC398CC" Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 81.169.247.85 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Spam-Score: 0.9 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit Cc: bug-Guix@gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D359429A0A6A4E876CC398CC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Ludovic, Not really answering your question, but would user namespaces be an option for you? If so, might be a simpler option. Thank you for the suggestion, this does look interesting. However, the original use-case of using guix in a non-root scenario is=20 no longer relevant to me: I was convincing enough to get guix=20 root-installed on all relevant machines on which I do not have root=20 access. So I can enjoy guix properly, now. However, I could very well imagine guix to be used on a per-user basis,=20 acting on some sub-directory of $HOME. Afterall, many (most?)=20 desktop-systems are used by a single user - or so I would argue=E2=80=A6 On the original topic - I recently learned that the mechanisms proot=20 employs might just not work on all systems. So the issue may not per-se=20 have been with guix, but with proot. I=E2=80=99m no expert on the subject= =20 though, and didn=E2=80=99t dig deeper yet. Best regards, Florian =E2=80=8B --------------D359429A0A6A4E876CC398CC Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --------------D359429A0A6A4E876CC398CC--