We want to stop systemd from being added to docker images, because of rpm requiring systemctl.

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 13:44:48 UTC 2014


On 04/29/2014 05:47 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> Em 29-04-2014 18:27, Martin Langhoff escreveu:
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net
>> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     defense in depth means limit the attack surface as much as you can
>>
>>
>> As folks are trying to point out to you, these principles are well
>> understood in this group.
>>
>> However, _any minimally usable environment will have a scripting engine_
>> -- /bin/sh, python, and having _any_ of those general purpose tools
>> available is enough for the attacker.
>>
>> On your own machines, you might gain some (limited) advantage removing
>> some of them.
>>
>> Fedora and its derivatives, OTOH, are a large enough target that it's
>> worth for attackers to tailor attacks to it. So removing some tools
>> won't do much, and removing _all_ tools will ruin everyone's day.
>
> Hm? Okay, thread got long, but I don't recall anybody saying to remove
> scripting engines & etc. The point always was being able to have
> docker images without systemd, just because it's just not needed in
> there, and the thread got drifted away on 'may or not be a security
> liability'.
>
> It's part of getting Fedora somewhat optimized for containers.
>
> Anyway, sounds like we have even already agreed to remove the
> Requires, if I'm reading the thread correctly. So yeah, nothing much
> left to discuss in here ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Marcelo
>
I agree, where do I open a bugzilla to make this happen?  rpm?  Distro?
Systemd?


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