bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0)

2019-03-05 Thread Florian Thevissen
Hi Ludovic, Not really answering your question, but would user namespaces be an option for you? If so, might be a simpler option. Thank you for the suggestion, this does look interesting. However, the original

bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0)

2019-02-16 Thread Florian Thevissen
jotr Prins wrote: Sorry about that. If you get it to work, do update the document - or me by E-mail. Maybe Ludo has something to say about this. Pj. On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 10:04:03AM +0100, Florian Thevissen wrote: Hi pjotr, Did you try something like proot -0 -b /proc -b /dev

bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0)

2019-02-16 Thread Florian Thevissen
, 2019 at 09:39:21PM +0100, Florian Thevissen wrote: Hi, I am trying to get guix to run on a system where I do not have root access, following a guide by pjotrp involving proot, here: [1]https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org . All guix operations

bug#34494: proot-based non-root setup: refusing to run with elevated privileges (UID 0)

2019-02-15 Thread Florian Thevissen
Hi, I am trying to get guix to run on a system where I do not have root access, following a guide by pjotrp involving proot, here: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org . All guix operations that involve the script perform-download fail with the error: guix