>> That's the kind of solution I was hoping someone has developed enough to
>> iron out those major security issues (e.g. letting GDM do the chroot
>> before it changes its UID to that of the user).
> See RootDirectory in systemd.exec(5). It can be set for specific users
> through user@.service.d d
On 28/04/2025 20:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
That's the kind of solution I was hoping someone has developed enough to
iron out those major security issues (e.g. letting GDM do the chroot
before it changes its UID to that of the user).
See RootDirectory in systemd.exec(5). It can be set for specif
>> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
>> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
>> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
> When you say "while" you mean "at the same time"?
That's what I meant by "another vty", yes.
> The first way that I can think of is extremely hack-ish.
>
> Install stable normally, then install sid in a chroot using debootstrap.
> Add the desired user accounts to the sid system.
>
> Next, write a little C program that executes a command like
>
> chroot /sid /bin/su - getenv("LOGNAME")
Hi Stefan,
26 avr. 2025, 03:52 de monn...@iro.umontreal.ca:
> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
>
When you say "while" you mean "at th
On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 12:53:24PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
> >> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
> >> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
> >> I don't really want di
>> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
>> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
>> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
>> I don't really want different VMs.
> Why don't you want to go down the VMs road?
> Just trying
On 4/26/25 03:51, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
I don't really want different VMs.
>
Why don't you want to go
> How would you run both the Debian Stable and Debian Sid kernels at the same
> time without virtualization?
I don't need the kernels to be different (in my experience, Debian
stable works just fine with a Debian sid kernel, and the reverse is
also true most of the time).
Stefan
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 21:51:47 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
>
> I don't really want different VMs
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM Stefan Monnier
wrote:
> The recent discussion around Xpra reminded me of something much more
> limited that I've often wanted:
>
> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log
The recent discussion around Xpra reminded me of something much more
limited that I've often wanted:
Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it
and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in
another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system?
I d
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