Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261936AbVEKIxd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:53:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261935AbVEKIxV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:53:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54442 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261933AbVEKIxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 04:53:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:53:01 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericvh@gmail.com, smfrench@austin.rr.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [RCF] [PATCH] unprivileged mount/umount Message-ID: <20050511085301.GC24495@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ericvh@gmail.com, smfrench@austin.rr.com References: <20050504134717.GD3562@admingilde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050504134717.GD3562@admingilde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 19 On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:47:17PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote: > hoi :) > > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:31:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > This (lightly tested) patch against 2.6.12-rc* adds some > > infrastructure and basic functionality for unprivileged mount/umount > > system calls. > > most of this unprivileged mount policy can be handled by a suid > userspace helper (e.g. pmount) Not sanely. It's what started this whole threads. see the threads about fuse and the nasty cifs ioctl. - 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/