Ticket #314 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

bind mount more stuff

Reported by: geofft Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: Karmic Deploy (Canceled)
Component: login chroot Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

It seems desirable to bind-mount /var/log rather than to discard the snapshot.

Right this moment I also want /boot bind-mounted.

Change History

comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 15 years ago by geofft

Zephyr discussion reminds me that I just want read access to /boot, and write access is a problem for the same reason it's a problem for /. I'd be okay with a snapshot, but LVM won't let us do that.

/var/log is a little more reasonable to mount writable ... Perhaps we also want something to copy in new logs from /var/log, but not let you rm -r /var/log to cover your traces (for instance, the wtmp record of your login is noted outside the chroot).

comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 15 years ago by geofft

Replying to geofft:

Zephyr discussion reminds me that I just want read access to /boot, and write access is a problem for the same reason it's a problem for /. I'd be okay with a snapshot, but LVM won't let us do that.

I'm a little confused why I wrote that... I guess within the confines of LVM itself, /boot being a non-LVM partition would cause problems, but you can definitely use the underlying device-mapper to create a snapshot of /boot.

/var/log is a little more reasonable to mount writable ... Perhaps we also want something to copy in new logs from /var/log, but not let you rm -r /var/log to cover your traces (for instance, the wtmp record of your login is noted outside the chroot).

Another option is to chattr +a /var/log and bind-mount it through, but that's pretty trivial to defeat. Maybe we simply want to bind-mount it and make sure we have sufficient remote syslogging of all the things we care about.

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

  • Milestone set to IAP 2010

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by jdreed

  • Component changed from -- to login chroot

comment:5 Changed 14 years ago by geofft

Note that there's also a need to bind mount less stuff, namely, /home shouldn't be persistent. It possibly shouldn't exist or should be read-only or something.

(I guess this would involve moving /home/kiosk@mit somewhere else, but that's probably reasonable anyway.)

comment:6 Changed 14 years ago by broder

  • Status changed from new to proposed

comment:7 Changed 14 years ago by geofft

  • Status changed from proposed to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed
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