From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:44:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20050412164401.GA14149@mail.shareable.org> References: <3S8oN-So-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oN-So-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <3S8oM-So-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <3SbPN-3T4-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050412144529.GE10995@mail.shareable.org> <20050412160409.GH10995@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Return-path: Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:25760 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262266AbVDLQoO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:44:14 -0400 To: Miklos Szeredi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The same can be true for tarfs. I mount it for my purpose, others can > mount it for theirs. Since the daemon providing the filesystem asways > runs with the same capabilities as the user who did the mount, I and > others will always get the permissions that we have on the actual tar > file. Fair enough. > Think of the "no permission for others" as "hiding", not as some > special permission rule. And if this hiding can be nicely done with > namespaces, all the better, I'll happily drop this feature at that > instant. Indeed, if it can be done with namespaces _and_ mounting on a file (that file-as-directory concept), _and_ automounting, then you could cd into your tgz files and others could too :) -- Jamie