Subject: bug#43371: closed (Re: [bug#43371] [PATCH] doc: prevent host/container nscd mismatch)

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:37:03 +0000

Your bug report

#43371: [PATCH] doc: prevent host/container nscd mismatch

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Subject: Re: [bug#43371] [PATCH] doc: prevent host/container nscd mismatch
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Edouard Klein <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], conjaroy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:36:05 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Edouard Klein <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> Actually, perhaps the better fix is to never use the host’s nscd?  We
>> could change ‘containerized-operating-system’ accordingly.
>>
>
> I think this would be best, but I did not know where to make this
> change, so I just edited the doc instead. I don't know if containers
> need the host's nscd to avoid the libc issues mentionned in the doc, but
> if they dont, then prevening them from accessing the host's nscd seems
> logical and would solve the problem. And we wouldn't need to amend the
> doc at all.

This has now been done by Jason in
5627bfe45ce46f498979b4ad2deab1fdfed22b6c.

Closing!

Ludo’.

Subject: [PATCH] doc: prevent host/container nscd mismatch
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], conjaroy <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:30:49 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

doc/guix.texi: (Name Service Switch) add a workaround for bug #41575
---
 doc/guix.texi | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index a6e14ea177..a9472e680e 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1706,6 +1706,20 @@ this binary incompatibility problem because those @code{libnss_*.so}
 files are loaded in the @command{nscd} process, not in applications
 themselves.
 
+For applications running in containers (@pxref{Invokin guix container}),
+however, @code{nscd} may leak information from the host to the container.
+If there is a configuration mismatch between the two ---e.g., the host
+has no @code{sshd} user while the container needs one--- then it may be
+worthwhile to limit which kind of information the host's @code{nscd}
+daemon may give to the container by adding the following to
+@code{/etc/nscd.conf}.
+
+@example
+        enable-cache            passwd          no
+        enable-cache            group           no
+        enable-cache            netgroup        no
+@end example
+
 @subsection X11 Fonts
 
 @cindex fonts
@@ -27582,7 +27596,7 @@ that should be preferably killed.
 
 @item @code{avoid-regexp} (default: @code{#f})
 A regular expression (as a string) to match the names of the processes
-that should @emph{not} be killed.
+that should @emph{not} be kcoilled.
 
 @item @code{memory-report-interval} (default: @code{0})
 The interval in seconds at which a memory report is printed.  It is
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