From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "D. Stussy" <replies+newsgroups@kd6lvw.ampr.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mounting /proc w/ kernel 3.4.0 - "uid" parameter no longer valid?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:17:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr411x4b.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jpk8nr$2f8$1@snarked.org> (D. Stussy's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 20:08:42 -0700")
"D. Stussy" <spam+newsgroups@bde-arc.ampr.org> writes:
> proc: unrecognized mount option "uid=1" or missing value
>
> This works under 3.3.6 and earlier (I never tried 3.3.7). It appears that the
> "uid" mount option was removed. WHY? More importantly, where is this change
> listed? I didn't see it in the git log.
>
> This is really bad as I rebooted a remotely colocated server and since the
> procfs is not mounted, I cannot log in via SSH to correct the problem.
>
> OK, so there's not that much point in changing the UID of the procfs files, but
> I preferred to set their default ownership to a non-privileged user.
There has never been a uid= option to /proc in Linus's tree. I believe
if you look you will find this feature was from a patch (perhaps from
your distro) that added that support.
Eric
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2012-05-24 3:08 Mounting /proc w/ kernel 3.4.0 - "uid" parameter no longer valid? D. Stussy
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