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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 14:34:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC3EF5E.90900@gentoo.org> (raw)

Hi,

In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the
description from the make.conf(5) man page:

  Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as
  portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is also used).

The rationale for having the separate "usersandbox" setting, to enable
use of sys-apps/sandbox, is that people who enable userpriv sometimes
prefer to have sandbox disabled in order to slightly improve
performance. However, I would recommend to enable usersandbox by
default, for the purpose of logging sandbox violations.

Note that ebuilds can set RESTRICT="userpriv" if they require superuser
privileges during any of the src_* phases that userpriv affects.

I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I don't
remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it
would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. Objections?
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-28 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-28 21:34 Zac Medico [this message]
2012-05-28 21:46 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default? Andreas K. Huettel
2012-05-28 21:52 ` Davide Pesavento
2012-05-28 23:17 ` Michael Weber
2012-05-28 23:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-05-29  1:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Maxim Kammerer
2012-05-29  1:58   ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-29  8:43 ` Agostino Sarubbo
2012-05-29  8:58   ` Richard Yao
2012-05-29  9:05   ` Zac Medico
2012-05-29 14:11     ` Michał Górny
2012-05-29 14:50       ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-29 14:57         ` hasufell
2012-05-29 15:23           ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-29 16:27             ` hasufell
2012-05-29 17:08               ` Jeff Horelick
2012-05-29 19:46                 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-29 19:58                   ` Mike Gilbert
2012-05-29 20:21                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-29 20:05                   ` William Hubbs
2012-05-29 21:47                   ` Hilco Wijbenga
2012-05-29 22:11                     ` Zac Medico
2012-05-29 23:22                       ` Richard Yao
2012-05-30  0:38                         ` Zac Medico
2012-05-30  0:59                       ` Hilco Wijbenga
2012-05-29 19:44               ` Ralph Sennhauser
2012-05-29 22:09           ` Zac Medico
2012-05-29 20:32       ` Zac Medico
2012-07-02 19:48 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-07-02 20:01   ` Zac Medico
2012-07-02 20:36     ` vivo75
2012-07-02 20:45       ` Zac Medico
2012-07-03  7:18         ` Pacho Ramos
2012-07-03  8:02         ` Michał Górny
2013-07-21 10:53           ` Pacho Ramos
2013-07-21 18:25             ` Zac Medico
2013-07-21 18:30               ` Alex Xu
2013-07-21 18:35                 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-07-03  8:11         ` vivo75
2012-07-03 13:50         ` Andreas K. Huettel
2012-07-03 13:55           ` Andreas K. Huettel

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