Re: [User-mode-linux-user] FeedBack on latest kernel

[Chris E. <cem...@ch...>]

On Saturday, 7 Oct 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> epa...@up... said:
> > Many sysadmins (myself included) get very nervous when users ask
> > for a suid helper.
> 
> There's another possibility.  The eth daemon can be made to
> communicate with its peers on other boxes (which is a good idea in
> its own right), and you could set up a virtual network that has
> non-privileged daemons, except for one running as root on a machine
> that no one cares about.  That one would be the gateway to the
> outside world for all the others.

I think it would still be nice to avoid root altogether where
possible.  Seems to me that something like slirp
(http://slirp.sourceforge.net/) could be useful here.

Chris
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