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bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated pri


From: Florian Thevissen
Subject: bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0)
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:04:03 +0100

Hi pjotr,

Did you try something like

proot -0 -b /proc -b /dev -b /etc -r . -b etc_guix/acl:/etc/guix/acl gnu/store/vir3l..-guix-0.x/bin/guix-daemon —disable-chroot

Yes, this doesn’t work - with or without the -0 flag.

That used to work. But maybe no longer?

I tried the new guix binaries (0.16.0), and the ones that were recent when you wrote the guide (0.13.0), and proot has not, if I see correctly, significantly changed since then (v.5.1.0).

To me, this looks as if the setup on my particular system had something special to it that would lead guix to not behave correctly. Here’s a #guix chat-log, where Saone (at 00:25:29) comes to the same conclusion: https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-09-21 .

For the record - this happens on an Debian 4.9.130-2 x86_64 system. I'll try this out on other systems/VMs today...



On 16/02/19 07:34, Pjotr Prins wrote:

Did you try something like

proot -0 -b /proc -b /dev -b /etc -r . -b etc_guix/acl:/etc/guix/acl gnu/store/vir3l..-guix-0.x/bin/guix-daemon --disable-chroot

(note the extra -0 and chroot switches) and you should see on a guix package install.

That used to work. But maybe no longer?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:39:21PM +0100, Florian Thevissen wrote:
   Hi,

   I am trying to get guix to run on a system where I do not have root
   access, following a guide by pjotrp involving proot, here:
   [1]https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org .

   All guix operations that involve the script perform-download fail with
   the error:

     guix perform-download: error: refusing to run with elevated
     privileges (UID 0)

   I am not sure if this hints at a bug in guix itself, but a comment in
   the guix sources lets me assume so. It says in
   package-management.scm:355

     “Note that scripts like ‘guix perform-download’ do not run as root
     (…)”

   In my setup, following this guide, however, it apparently is run as
   root, and (assert-low-privileges) in the script perform-download.scm:89
   acts accordingly by signalling the error and exiting.

   (By the way - running guix-daemon with proot root privileges fails
   (-0), and running it without (no -0) fails also.)

   Now my question: why is perform-download run as root following pjotrs
   guide, and is there anything that can be done about it?

   I am a bit at a loss here, being unfamiliar with the guix sources and
   overall system setup.

   Looking forward to help, thanks,

   Florian
   ​

References

   1. https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org


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