Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261462AbVDZKBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:01:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261461AbVDZKBn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:01:43 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32188 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261439AbVDZKBT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:01:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:00:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: hch@infradead.org, jamie@shareable.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, bulb@ucw.cz, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts Message-Id: <20050426030010.63757c8c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <3WWZG-3AC-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <3X630-2qD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3X8HA-4IH-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Xagd-5Wb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <1114445923.4480.94.camel@localhost> <20050425191015.GC28294@mail.shareable.org> <20050426091921.GA29810@infradead.org> <20050426093628.GA30208@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 20 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > > define "mount owner". Right now mount requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN which means > > > > fairly privilegued. > > > > > > FUSE uses a suid root helper (as explained below). Please read the > > > whole mail. > > > > In that case you're totally out of luck. This is not a setup we want to > > account for. > > Christoph, you are being thickheaded, Not as thick as mine! Could someone please explain in small words what's wrong with an suid mount helper? - 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/