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Eric Yang commented on YARN-7221:
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[~ebadger] Thank you for the review.  Our decision was to run docker as root 
put making the localized directory read-only (YARN-7904).  They can bind mount 
data directories for multi-user docker image to reflect file permission 
properly for trusted image.  We need to validate that localized directory can 
be read-only for root.  You are right about uid:gid pair is handled in the Java 
layer.  I will rebase the code to handle this correctly.

> Add security check for privileged docker container
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: YARN-7221
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-7221
>             Project: Hadoop YARN
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Eric Yang
>            Assignee: Eric Yang
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: YARN-7221.001.patch, YARN-7221.002.patch, 
> YARN-7221.003.patch, YARN-7221.004.patch
>
>
> When a docker is running with privileges, majority of the use case is to have 
> some program running with root then drop privileges to another user.  i.e. 
> httpd to start with privileged and bind to port 80, then drop privileges to 
> www user.  
> # We should add security check for submitting users, to verify they have 
> "sudo" access to run privileged container.  
> # We should remove --user=uid:gid for privileged containers.  
>  
> Docker can be launched with --privileged=true, and --user=uid:gid flag.  With 
> this parameter combinations, user will not have access to become root user.  
> All docker exec command will be drop to uid:gid user to run instead of 
> granting privileges.  User can gain root privileges if container file system 
> contains files that give user extra power, but this type of image is 
> considered as dangerous.  Non-privileged user can launch container with 
> special bits to acquire same level of root power.  Hence, we lose control of 
> which image should be run with --privileges, and who have sudo rights to use 
> privileged container images.  As the result, we should check for sudo access 
> then decide to parameterize --privileged=true OR --user=uid:gid.  This will 
> avoid leading developer down the wrong path.



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