Re: [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag

Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-13T13:47:35Z

Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu):
> > Given the existence of shared subtrees allowing/denying this at the mount
> > namespace level is silly and wrong.
> >
> > If we need more than just the filesystem permission checks can we
> > make it a mount flag settable with mount and remount that allows
> > non-privileged users the ability to create mount points under it
> > in directories they have full read/write access to.
>
> OK, that makes sense.
>
> > I don't like the use of clone flags for this purpose but in this
> > case the shared subtress are a much more fundamental reasons for not
> > doing this at the namespace level.
>
> I'll drop the clone flag, and add a mount flag instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Miklos

Makes sense, so then on login pam has to spawn a new user namespace and
construct a root fs with no shared subtrees and with the
user-mounts-allowed flag specified?

-serge