ci: drop running COSA as UID 0 #1716
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This pull request aims to improve security by no longer running the COSA container as root. This is a great improvement. However, by removing the root privileges, the mechanism for using the newly built coreos-installer binary was removed but not replaced. My review includes a critical suggestion to fix this by updating the PATH environment variable, ensuring that the CI continues to test the correct binary.
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Allow group write permissions on /usr/bin because in upstream project's CI we want to overwrite binaries for testing. The dir is owned by root:root and CI runs in openshift as a user that is a member of the `root` (GID: 0) group. See coreos/coreos-installer#1716
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Ok I think this should be ready to go. requires https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/pull/4410/changes (please review) |
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Allow group write permissions on /usr/ because in upstream project's CI we want to overwrite software for testing. The directories are typically owned by root:root and CI runs in openshift as a user that is a member of the `root` (GID: 0) group. See coreos/coreos-installer#1716
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Allow group write permissions on /usr/ because in upstream project's CI we want to overwrite software for testing. The directories are typically owned by root:root and CI runs in openshift as a user that is a member of the `root` (GID: 0) group. See coreos/coreos-installer#1716 Also add an exception for /etc/grub.d for OSTree upstream CI.
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Allow group write permissions on /usr/ because in upstream project's CI we want to overwrite software for testing. The directories are typically owned by root:root and CI runs in openshift as a user that is a member of the `root` (GID: 0) group. See coreos/coreos-installer#1716 Also add an exception for /etc/grub.d for OSTree upstream CI.
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minor: Typo in the first commit message |
This became obsolete when buildPod was introduced in coreos/coreos-ci-lib@f2a82bd
We opened up the permissions when building the COSA container [1] so this isn't necessary any longer with a few adjustments here. [1] coreos/coreos-assembler#4410
This issue should have been fixed a long time ago. Let's drop this old workaround.
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