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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Re: autofs RFE
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:48:58 -0800
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To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>, Gerald Teschl <gerald@esi.ac.at>

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