Re: [PATCH review 18/85] coda: Restrict coda messages to the initialuser namespace

From: Jan Harkes
Date: Wed Feb 13 2013 - 13:57:28 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:51:07AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove the slight chance that uids and gids in coda messages will be
> interpreted in the wrong user namespace.

Awesome, I was wondering how to handle uid's from different namespaces
cleanly in Coda's userspace daemon without resorting to exporting kuids
to userspace.

But this is a much more elegant solution, every namespace that cares
about Coda should just run their own mountpoint and userspace daemon.

Jan
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