Re: [RCF] [PATCH] unprivileged mount/umount

Martin Waitz
2005-05-04T13:49:43Z

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hoi :)

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:31:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This (lightly tested) patch against 2.6.12-rc* adds some
> infrastructure and basic functionality for unprivileged mount/umount
> system calls.

most of this unprivileged mount policy can be handled by a suid
userspace helper (e.g. pmount)

what are the pros/cons of handling that in the kernel?

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Martin Waitz

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