On fre, 2015-03-27 at 10:03 +0100, James Bottomley > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> > > wrote: > > > It's currently impossible to mount devpts in a user namespace that > > > has no root user, since ptmx can't be created. > > This is where I stopped reading because it's not true ... because it is > possible, you just do it from the host as real root.
The point is being able to set up a container as a user, not requiring the setup to be run as root at all. In my case container is a desktop application which will be started by the user, and will run as the user. There is no root involved in the call chain at all. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a war-weary Catholic boxer for the 21st century. She's a beautiful renegade magician's assistant looking for love in all the wrong places. They fight crime! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/