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Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs
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Olivier Sessink |
Subject: |
Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:28:01 +0100 |
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Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) |
Stephen Tallowitz wrote:
[..]
thanks for the research Stephen :)
saves me a lot of work (and thus more time for the parallel init program
I'm writing :) )
> My conclusion - there are three possibilities:
> - Try os.rename and warn the user if it fails, telling the user that
> cross-device moving is not possible. Maybe along with the notice telling the
> user to move using 'mv source JAILDIR/home'. I've tested GNU mv from
> fileutils-4.0 on gentoo and it does preserve all information when moving
> across devices. I suppose BSDs do the same thing?
> - Using some sort of exec() call from within python to call 'mv source
> JAILDIR/home' (probably quite dangerous).
> - Implementing move() in jailkit - more time-consuming and will probably need
> some investigation into other python library functions. Of course many ideas
> of the shutil library could be used to ease the process of implementing such
> a method.
>
> Personally, I'd opt for the first possibility. I wouldn't need loads of
> moving around anyway. I don't know about requirements of other jailkit users,
> though.
> This would leave the path open, if the python devs fix the shutil library
> (they do mention in the source that improvements will have to be made). It
> also depends on how soon you want to realease the next version of jailkit, of
> course.
opt 1 and then tell the user to move the files him/herself.. hmm I'm now
wondering what the problems of system('mv source jail/source') are.. do
you have a clear view on the possible problems?
regards,
Olivier
- [Jailkit-dev] jk_jailuser bug fixed, Olivier Sessink, 2005/11/10
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Stephen Tallowitz, 2005/11/10
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Stephen Tallowitz, 2005/11/10
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Olivier Sessink, 2005/11/11
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Olivier Sessink, 2005/11/13
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Stephen Tallowitz, 2005/11/14
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs,
Olivier Sessink <=
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Stephen Tallowitz, 2005/11/14
- Re: [Jailkit-dev] more jk_jailuser bugs, Olivier Sessink, 2005/11/14