[lxc-devel] lxc 1.1.2: "lxc-ls" vs "lxc-ls -P /var/lib/lxc"

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I get a weird effect on running lxc-ls without root:
> 
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 507} lxc-ls
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 508} echo $?
> 0
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 509} lxc-ls -P /var/lib/lxc
> .jessie                debbuild               template.blog
> .mini                  lxc0
> .squeeze               oraclient
> .wheezy                p1
> centos65               p2
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 510} echo $?
> 0
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 511} ls -l /var/lib/lxc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug  7  2014 /var/lib/lxc -> ../../export/lxc
> {hdunkel at dpcl082:~ 512} ls -al /var/lib/../../export/lxc
> total 180
> drwxr-xr-x 32 root    root   4096 Apr 13 13:03 .
> drwxrwxrwt 22 root    root   4096 Feb  2 09:52 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Aug 19  2014 .jessie
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Nov 20  2013 .mini
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Nov 20  2013 .squeeze
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Aug 19  2014 .wheezy
> -rw-r--r--  1 root    root    781 Jul  2  2014 README
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root    root   4096 Jan 21  2014 centos65
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Oct 17 07:46 debbuild
> -rw-r--r--  1 root    root  19973 Jan 23 09:33 lxc-monitord.log
> drwxrwxr-x  3 root    root   4096 Mar 18 16:23 lxc0
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Oct 14 11:38 oraclient
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Aug  7  2014 p1
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Aug  7  2014 p2
> drwxrwxr-x  3 root    root   4096 Apr 13 12:26 template.blog
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root   4096 Oct 14 11:36 tmp
> 
> 
> Please note that the "-P /var/lib/lxc" makes lxc-ls work,
> even though its the default path. For root there is no
> such problem.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Harri

Ever since LXC 1.0.0 (so over a year now), lxc-ls run as non-root lists
unprivileged containers stored in ~/.local/share/lxc/

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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