Re: [Plash] Installing with non-root access

[Mark Seaborn]

John McCabe-Dansted <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 6/22/07, Gregory Piñero <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any chance I can install plash with being a root user?  I
> > want to put it on my web host.  I have ssh access but am not a root
> > user.  It looks like such a great tool, please tell me it's possible!
> 
> it has to do chroots, which can only be done by the root user.
> 
> I think this means that it has to be installed as root.

Yes, it requires root to install Plash fully, I'm afraid (see
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/ChrootSetuidJail).  It's possible to run
Plash without using the chroot jail, for testing purposes, but that
doesn't provide any security.

The component that needs to be installed as root is quite small so it
might be easier to persuade a sysadmin to install that than install
all of Plash.

I have some plans to use ptrace() instead of chroot jails (see
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PtraceJail), which would work from an
privileged user account, but that won't be done in the near future.

Mark