> On Apr 25 2007 11:21, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >> Why did we want to use fsuid, exactly? > > > >- Because ruid is completely the wrong thing we want mounts owned > > by whomever's permissions we are using to perform the mount. > > Think nfs. I access some nfs file as an unprivileged user. knfsd, by > nature, would run as euid=0, uid=0, but it needs fsuid=jengelh for > most permission logic to work as expected.
I don't think knfsd will ever want to call mount(2). But yeah, I've been convinced, that using fsuid is the right thing to do. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
