User authentication outside the jail

[Vanyo]

How can I authenticate a user or a group outside the jail?
The host system's and the jail's users are not in contact, aren't they?

 

[ben]

They're not. What's the actual problem you're trying to solve/can you give more detail on what you're attempting?

 

[Vanyo]

There is a dataset outside the jail, which must be writeable by the transmission plugin inside the jail, through a mount point. Now it seems to be the only solution is to give 777 permission to the dataset, but it's not really safe.

 

[ben]

Oh, so same question as you asked before. I don't have any other advice, sorry. Good luck, hopefully someone else can help.

 

[Vanyo]

Thanks ben :) Btw, what's the usual procedure in such cases? Only to give 777 permission to the host dir?

 

[ben]

I think we're still at the point where everyone is finding a solution that works for them, and there isn't a common, recommended solution. The way I do it with a single user who can write to target through CIFS and using a UID collision to make sure the permissions apply everywhere works for me with one user on the network, but others have very different needs.

 

[Vanyo]

Could it be a solution to mount an NFS share to the transmission download dir?