Re: [patch] unprivileged mounts update

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Apr 25 2007 11:21, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Why did we want to use fsuid, exactly?
>
>- Because ruid is completely the wrong thing we want mounts owned
>  by whomever's permissions we are using to perform the mount.

Think nfs. I access some nfs file as an unprivileged user. knfsd, by
nature, would run as euid=0, uid=0, but it needs fsuid=jengelh for
most permission logic to work as expected.


Jan
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