[Bug 1004069] Re: lxc-start-ephemeral doesn't fully work when started as non-root

[Stéphane Graber]

** Description changed:

  lxc-start-ephemeral is supposed to be working as non-root by calling
  sudo where needed but some actions (writing to conf files) still require
  root.
  
  In Quantal, I fixed lxc-start-ephemeral so that it uses "sudo tee" in
  such case, making it work as expected, this should be SRUed to Precise.
  
  ----
  
  [impact]
  lxc-start-ephemeral only partly works when run as non-root, this isn't the expected behaviour.
  
- [development fix]
- The SRU is a copy of the template from development
- 
- [stable fix]
- The SRU is a copy of the template from development
- 
  [test case]
   1) sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu -n p1
   2) lxc-start-ephemeral -o p1
  
  If 2) works properly without any error message (operation not
  permitted/permission denied), then the fix works.
  
  [regression potential]
  Can't get much worse than a command blowing up at the middle of run time with files being owned by root and an half started container.

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  lxc-start-ephemeral doesn't fully work when started as non-root

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