From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756792Ab2EXOSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 10:18:12 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:36041 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752615Ab2EXOSK (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 May 2012 10:18:10 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "D. Stussy" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:17:56 -0600 In-Reply-To: (D. Stussy's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 20:08:42 -0700") Message-ID: <87wr411x4b.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=208.38.5.102;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX19L9sKZ5ne/662KcyChhYSzhfSw39U3yLw= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 208.38.5.102 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP TVD_RCVD_IP * 0.1 XMSubLong Long Subject * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0008] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa05 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa05 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;"D. Stussy" X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: Mounting /proc w/ kernel 3.4.0 - "uid" parameter no longer valid? X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:04 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "D. Stussy" 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