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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] obsoleting /etc/mtab
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:49:05 +0100
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On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:33:09AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>  The core of the problem is that HAL doesn't have entries in
>  /etc/fstab, so you cannot check for "user=" and "users=" by
>  umount(8). The HAL have enough information about user's privileges,
>  but the umount(8) knows nothing.

Please don't put this in.  The last thing we need is more ugly hacks
and suid mess in the mount code.  Miklos is working towards proper
non-privilegued mounts and you should better support him there.