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From: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] hostfs permissions
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:14:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <quack.20050610T1314.87aclyvuim@quack.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506101803.21108.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (blaisorblade@yahoo.it's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:03:20 +0200")

>>>>> On 2005-06-10 09:03 PDT, Blaisorblade  writes:
    >> Hostfs seems to make everything owned by root -- even files
    >> created by non-root users.
    Blaisorblade> So you are running uml as root?

    Blaisorblade> Or you are running UML as non-root but with
    Blaisorblade> hostfs as root filesystem? 

I'm running uml as non-root (that's part of the reason for using
UML, so I can do everything as non-root), and not using hostfs as
the root file system.  I just need to share one directory tree,
and some processes inside the uml need to run as non-root.

    Blaisorblade> 1) HUMFS, implementing the ideal behaviour below

Humfs looks promising; I'm investigating - thanks.

    >> I would be happy if there were uid and gid mount options as
    >> many other fs types have -- to treat all files in the
    >> entire mount as owned by a particular user/group.

    Blaisorblade> Well, I'm going to add those options to UML 2.6
    Blaisorblade> but I'll be able to work on this only next
    Blaisorblade> week... However this should not be too much
    Blaisorblade> work.

Great! Thanks!  Let me know if I can help with anything.

-- 
Karl 2005-06-10 13:06


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-10  5:34 [uml-devel] hostfs permissions Karl Chen
2005-06-10 16:03 ` Blaisorblade
2005-06-10 20:14   ` Karl Chen [this message]
2005-06-10 22:26     ` Blaisorblade
2005-06-11  0:48       ` Karl Chen
2005-06-11  2:33         ` Blaisorblade

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