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From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13.1 (stable)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:21:33 +0200 (MET DST)
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Karel Zak wrote:

> mount:
>    - doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers  [Ludwig Nussel]

How can a mount helper know without being setuid root and redundantly doing 
mount(8)'s work that the user is allowed to mount via the 'user[s]' fstab 
mount option? 

	Szaka

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