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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The same is true for the case when you mount an sshfs. Since you > entered your password (or have a passwordless login to the server) you > are authorized to browse the files on the server, but only with the > capabilities you have there as a user. The server does the > authorization. The same is true for an NFS mount btw. It's not the > client that checks the permissions.> > So do you see why I argue in favor of having an option _not_ to check > permissions on the client by the kernel? Note that NFS checks the permissions on _both_ the client and server, for a reason. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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