Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:47:22 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@infradead.org, serue@us.ibm.com,
       viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, ebiederm@xmission.com, kzak@redhat.com,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       containers@lists.osdl.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/9] unprivileged mounts: add user mounts to the kernel
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On Tue 2008-01-08 12:35:03, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> 
> This patchset adds support for keeping mount ownership information in the
> kernel, and allow unprivileged mount(2) and umount(2) in certain cases.
> 
> The mount owner has the following privileges:
> 
>   - unmount the owned mount
>   - create a submount under the owned mount

- create traps for updatedb, etc?

Is there Doc* file somewhere describing dangers of allowing this?
							Pavel
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