Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default

From	Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default
Date	2020-10-23 09:00 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:55:33PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> TBH, I think not having it enabled by default until now saved us a
> couple of time from needing to release urgent fixes. It is more a gut
> feeling and might not have enough weight: but having it still disabled
> in bullseye by default we would be still better of from security
> releases/DSA's perspectives.

And how does it help if all people enable it, because common software,
like chromium, actually require it to run?  Then it does not help at all
against being forced to publish fixes.

Bastian

-- 
If there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.
		-- Spock, "This Side of Paradise", stardate 3417.7

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Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-11 20:50 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-05-13 01:40 +0200
  Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-13 01:40 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Frederik Himpe <frederik@frehi.be> - 2018-05-13 19:40 +0200
      Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-05-14 04:50 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-05-13 23:10 +0200
      Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-03-30 12:10 +0200
        Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-03-30 14:30 +0200
        Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-15 04:00 +0200
          Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-04-15 09:40 +0200
            Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-16 04:20 +0200
              Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-10-20 18:30 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2020-10-22 23:00 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-22 23:10 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2020-10-23 09:00 +0200
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> - 2020-11-17 17:30 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-11-17 19:00 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-12-13 17:40 +0100
                Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-10-24 03:30 +0200
    Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2018-05-14 07:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-05-14 04:50 +0200
  Bug#898446: (no subject) Nikolas Nyby <nikolas@gnu.org> - 2019-03-06 15:50 +0100
  Bug#898446: Please reconsider enabling the user namespaces by default Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch> - 2020-10-23 17:30 +0200
  Bug#898446: marked as done (Please reconsider enabling the user  namespaces by default) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-12-17 13:10 +0100

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