dev/console catch 22

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Tue Jun 19 14:02:09 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:52:27AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Michael Cashwell wrote:
> > So the file hierarchy served by the NFS server must be written by the a
> > host process and I still have the issue of needing elevated privileges
> > to do that for the special console node.
> 
> i dont really buy this ... only the root user can set up NFS exports and in 
> order for it to be usable by the embedded machine, it has to have root 
> access ... so basically, your system is already insecure so giving away sudo 
> to everyone is exactly the same

Maybe you could run the user-space NFS server inside fakeroot? ;)

I have not tried this.

Hamish
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