Re: [PATCH] private mounts

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

>  - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from
>    other users' and the super user's processes
[...]
>  3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied
>     all access to the filesystem

This smells. Denying access to root doesn't make any sense. I agree
that it could help in some corner cases (like avoiding automated backup
from backing up user filesystems), but in the end it's going to be
an annoyance.

Per-user namespaces (set up by PAM) look as a very reasonable solution.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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