[lxc-users] is starting unprivileged containers as root as secure as running them as any other user?

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 12 16:35:18 UTC 2016


Quoting david.andel at bli.uzh.ch (david.andel at bli.uzh.ch):
> So  if I understood correctly, this means that lxd could potentially suffer from a weakness in 'lxc monitor' meaning that it is more secure to run unprivileged containers using the low level lxc-... functions?

I mentioned the lxc-monitor case for completeness, but as there should be no
sockets etc from the monitor avaiable to the container, it'll be a very
interesting case if/when such a vuln is found.


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