Re: [uml-devel] Bug report

[Matt Z. <md...@de...>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:28:07PM -0400, David Coulson wrote:

> Steve Schnepp wrote:
> >Maybe the hostfs switch doesn't work either, but actually i don't think
> >rootfs would work. [ Well... I didn't try actually ]
> 
> rootfs sets the UML's root filesystem - It has nothing to do with 
> hostfs. hostfs= sets the toplevel directory for mounting hostfs.
> 
> >You have to be root to use chroot since I don't know any other way. It
> >could be a good reason for some.
> 
> Start as root
> chroot()
> setgid
> setuid
> run UML

It might be nice if UML could do the chroot/setuid itself if started as
root, after opening its files.  This way, ubd devices and such could be kept
outside the chroot.

-- 
 - mdz