From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, kzak@redhat.com
Subject: Re: getting rid of "mount: only root can ..."
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 17:01:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201405082101.s48L1AYa030864@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUBTf=Wyz76Y3T=2CXqtKNhgK1YVgmBv1mEh85mNt4MKA@mail.gmail.com> (luto@amacapital.net)
> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
>
> A kind of hackish solution would be for mount --nopriv or whatever to drop
> privileges immediately and stop enforcing any policy at all.
Given what Karel has said, I'm not sure that would give the correct
behavior:
The problem is that mount(8) is not just about mount(2) call only. If
we drop privileges then mount(8) will report problems with things like
FS detection, loopdevs setups, etc. It's necessary to review the code
and make errors/warnings somehow usable.
Dale
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 21:01 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
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 [this message]
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