Re: [PATCH] private mounts

From: Heikki Orsila
Date: Mon Apr 25 2005 - 05:50:55 EST


Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> More generally:
>
> 1. the files exported by the FUSE filesystem should not be accessible
> by other users.

Not even by root. If an admin of a remote system runs a backup script, one
does not want private home computer files go with that. The admin of the
remote system does definitely not want to make backups of my home files.

Heikki Orsila Barbie's law:
heikki.orsila@xxxxxx "Math is hard, let's go shopping!"
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