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From: Ben Ford <ben@kalifornia.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mounting a fs in two places at once?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:00:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B3A1F4A.1080603@kalifornia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106250212.WAA05336@soyata.home> <3B370250.1050305@kalifornia.com> <20010628004854.B7331@weta.f00f.org>

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:20:16AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
>
>>Feature.  It actually makes it quite nice when you want to allow
>>chrooted user(s) access to a common directory, you just mount a
>>partition in all the users home dirs.
>>
>
>For security, this can be a bad idea.
>

'tis very true.

I have been using this for FTP users, such as allowing a common /mp3 
download directory relative to each users jail.  That is what I was 
referring to, should have been more specific.

-b

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-27 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-25  2:12 mounting a fs in two places at once? Marty Leisner
2001-06-25  2:35 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-25  6:18   ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-25  3:21 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-25  9:20 ` Ben Ford
2001-06-27 12:48   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-27 14:22     ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-28  5:04       ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-27 18:00     ` Ben Ford [this message]

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