From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: getting rid of "mount: only root can ..."
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 18:50:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201405052250.s45Monxm008110@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUU6ziKYA3RSb_6nEW4HyeR5BLGQ_3SgcnnnLnBX1us0g@mail.gmail.com> (luto@amacapital.net)
> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> What if mount determined that the requested option wasn't allowed by
> fstab and instead fell back to dropping privileges and trying anyway?
I'm not envisioning the problem that you're addressing very well.
What I was thinking is that, in the best of all worlds, if mount
doesn't permit the requested operation, it should correctly report the
test that failed. For instance, sometimes only root may perform the
operation, and so mount should say
"mount: only root can ..."
But if members of group 'foo' are permitted, then it should say
"mount: only members of 'foo' and root can ..."
etc.
Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 23:37 getting rid of "mount: only root can ..." Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-02 22:21 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-05-02 22:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-05 22:50 ` Dale R. Worley [this message]
2014-05-05 22:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-06 9:46 ` Karel Zak
2014-05-06 13:50 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-05-06 15:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-08 21:01 ` Dale R. Worley
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