Re: [PATCH] umount: allow non-root umount of FUSE even if not in fstab

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:46:23AM +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:
> > I believe more and more that we need something like
> > 
> >     /etc/mount.d/{fuse,foo,...}.conf
> > 
> > where we can define such behavior for some filesystems.
> 
> Hm, I fail to understand what (regarding to this 'issue') would
> you configure there. I can imagine e.g. per-fs-type default mount
> options or enable/disable 'user mounts' (-i) per fs-type.
> 
> Is this what you think that should be configured via /etc/mount.d/*,
> or something else?

The mount(8) and umount(8) are very strict about user mounts and about
the way how it calls /sbin/[u]mount helpers. It was fine many years
ago, but now we have things like pam_mount, fuse, HAL/udisks where
mount/umount stuff is managed in a different way. It means that we
need exceptions... and exceptions suck.

I think about:

 $ cat /etc/mount.d/fuse.conf

    [usermount]
    enabled = true
    require_fstab_entry = false
    require_helper = true


and yes, things like per-fs-type default mount options is another
possibility. 

Maybe this is something what should be added to the libmount.

    Karel

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