Hi Richard, Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:35:16PM +0200: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:14:07PM +0200:
>>> I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, >> You are not really explaining what it is that you actually >> want to do... >> >> So i'm guessing a bit: >> >> https://manpages.debian.org/buster/fakeroot/fakeroot.1.en.html >> >> says: >> >> fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to >> have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for >> allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files >> in them with root permissions/ownership. > Yeah that's exactly what sfakeroot does. Like I say I looked into > porting fakeroot, but it was way too complicated for me to be honest. >> If that is what you need, then the OpenBSD facility serving the >> same purpuse is documented here: >> >> https://man.openbsd.org/mount.8#noperm > Someone told me about that, but I couldn't see how to use it without > already being root (in order to mount an fs with noperm). > Maybe I missed something though? Well, of course, if a machine is to be used for such a purpose, then of course a system administrator of the machine has to allow it. That's the whole purpose of system administration, deciding what a machine and its various parts can be used for, and by whom. In this case, root needs to allocate a partition, create a file system, and mount it with the desired permissions. But after that, normal users can use the configured resources in the way they are configured, at any time. That's not very different from other kinds of making resources available. For example, if the system administrator does not enable kern.audio.record, you cannot use the microphone, if they do not mount a file system, normal users cannot access the disk partition, or if the system administrator doesn't create an account for you, you can't even log in... Yours, Ingo
