Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

[Yaroslav Rastrigin]

Greetings, gentlemen, 
On 11 April 2005 23:10, you wrote:
>
> Christoph was not objcting to lack of choice, rather the opposite.  He
> would like to have only the "allow_other" behavior.
I think I could sched some light on this option. 
It was needed when I was implementing SMB-to-FS connector (basically mapping 
msnet into filesystem hierarchy), using smbmount to actually mount shares 
over fuse-supported directory tree. smbmount (and sbmnt, in turn) needs to be 
able to access mountpoint, and, unfortunately, this access is done under 
setuid(0). allow_other can't be used in many cases, f.e. when user mounts 
MSNet tree over /mnt  (and can't protect /mnt with standard and proper 
attributes ). 

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