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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
	Gerald Teschl <gerald@esi.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Re: autofs RFE
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:48:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD6C1DA.7070303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0312081134310.26524-100000@wombat.indigo.net.au>

Ian Kent wrote:
>>
>>Would it be possible to make autofs honor the "owner" option for mount and
>>mount a dev with the permissions of the owner if this option is present?
> 
> I've been thinking about this for a while.
> 
> At the moment the userspace daemon has no way of knowing who the owner is.
> To change that would break backward compatability. So I'm not sure it's
> such a good idea.
> 
> How is this handled in v3 Peter?
> 

Actually, it's handled just fine by mount(8); the autofs daemon doesn't 
need to do anything special.

Just pass the -owner filesystem option and mount(8) will use the 
ownership of the device node.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312061825240.15355-100000@keen.esi.ac.at>
2003-12-08  3:41 ` autofs RFE Ian Kent
2003-12-08 10:43   ` Gerald Teschl
2003-12-10  6:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-10  8:45       ` Gerald Teschl
2003-12-10  6:48   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-12-10  8:52     ` Gerald Teschl
2003-12-10 10:15       ` Ian Kent
2003-12-10 17:57         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-11  0:50           ` Ian Kent
2003-12-11  0:51             ` H. Peter Anvin

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