Pre-check/Birdcage permission error

[furi0us333]

Overview

I am getting the following error when trying to use phylum with pip: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/debian_version'

How To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce this behavior:

1. Given the system information below, run phylum pip install "pyyaml==5.3.1"
2. See error

Expected Behavior

Phylum pre-check/birdcage run without the exception.

Additional Context

System details:

$ python3 -m pip list
Package       Version
------------- -------
Pillow        9.5.0
pip           23.1.2
pkg_resources 0.0.0
setuptools    44.0.0

$ python3 -c 'import sys; print(sys.base_exec_prefix)'
/usr

$ uname -a
Linux DESKTOP-RQ0PRHE 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 02:56:13 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ phylum version
✅ phylum (Version v5.0.1)

[kylewillmon]

Unfortunately, it appears that pip install "pyyaml==5.3.1" on WSL goes through the process of compiling pyyaml from source...

To allow compiling C code, we would need to significantly weaken our sandbox.

[louislang]

this seems like a pretty common thing people are likely to encounter. We should document this and perhaps consider adding some sort of escape hatch, e.g., Sandbox prevented package from compiling. Compile outside of the sandbox? [y/N]:

[cd-work]

I feel like that would just completely circumvent the whole purpose of sandboxing it in the first place?