Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261288AbVD0JKG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:10:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261299AbVD0JKG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:10:06 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:45319 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261288AbVD0JKA (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:10:00 -0400 Message-ID: <426F57FB.4020404@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:14:35 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lokier CC: Al Viro , Miklos Szeredi , hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts References: <20050424201820.GA28428@infradead.org> <20050424205422.GK13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050424210616.GM13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050424214339.GD9304@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20050424214339.GD9304@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 21 Jamie Lokier wrote: > He wants to do this: > > 1. From client, login to server and do a usermount on $HOME/private. > > 2. From client, login to server and read the files previously mounted. > > This is works fine with plain "mount", except that the mount isn't hidden from others. Why hide it? Permissions can be used to prevent others from looking at the mounted stuff if need be. I.e. put the mountpoint in a directory not readable by others, or have the root of that fs unreadable by others. Helge Hafting - 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/