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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 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

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