Re: Building domains as a lesser user (was Re: [Xen-devel] boot loaders for domain != 0)

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> As an alternative, I was trying to see if there was a way do create a 
> domain as a non-root user.  Since root can set up the shared memory 
> segments, it seems like the builder should be able to drop to a lesser 
> user.  It could even enter a chroot() so that the only potential attack 
> vector is a syscall exploit (which are rare and well-known enough that 
> that seems to be acceptable).
If we trust Linux to enforce security, we do not need Xen at all ;-)

Jacob


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