From: Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com>
To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS mount options in mount.nfs
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:54:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AEC9F1.6000804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707203223.GA4193@uio.no>
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:47:00PM -0400, Amit Gud wrote:
>> Please use the attached patch for testing. It varies only in the above
>> portion, but that should make a difference.
>
> Say, why is mount.nfs suid root in the first place? I'd expect it only to be
> called by mount, which should be suid already...
>
For security reasons, mount command resets the uids before calling
mount.nfs. So, even mount.nfs needs to be suid root to be able to use
the 'user' and 'users' mount options for NFS.
AG
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-07 17:45 [PATCH] Fix NFS mount options in mount.nfs Amit Gud
2006-07-07 17:45 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-07-07 18:03 ` Amit Gud
2006-07-07 18:31 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-07-08 18:56 ` Chuck Lever
2006-07-08 19:12 ` Amit Gud
2006-07-07 18:40 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-07-07 19:47 ` Amit Gud
2006-07-07 20:32 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-07-07 20:54 ` Amit Gud [this message]
2006-07-07 23:31 ` Neil Brown
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