Re: uid of user who mounts

[Miklos Szeredi]

> This discussion sounds as if you do think that this is somehow
> kernel-related.  But it is not. Mount is suid and does certain
> things in a certain way.

OK.  That doesn't mean, that adding user=UID to the mount options in
/proc/mounts isn't a good idea.  It is, since that would make it
possible to get rid of /etc/mtab, which causes problems for example if
private namespaces are used.



Miklos

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