Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262384AbVDLOlD (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:41:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262344AbVDLOgs (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:36:48 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:11936 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262254AbVDLOeA (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:34:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:33:47 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: dan@debian.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) Message-ID: <20050412143347.GC10995@mail.shareable.org> References: <20050411114728.GA13128@infradead.org> <20050411153619.GA25987@nevyn.them.org> <20050411181717.GA1129@nevyn.them.org> <20050411192223.GA3707@nevyn.them.org> <20050411214123.GF32535@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 25 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > It would also be nice to generalise and have virtual filesystems which > > are able to present different views to different users. Can FUSE do > > that already - is the userspace part told which user is doing each > > operation? > > Yes. > > > With that, the desire for virtual filesystems which cannot be read > > by your sysadmin (by accident) is easy to satisfy - and that kind of > > mechanism would probably be acceptable to all. > > The problem is that this way the responsibility goes to the userspace > program, which can't be trusted. That does not make sense. Are you saying you cannot trust your own sshfs userspace daemon? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/