Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:14:14 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] private mounts |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:00:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Not as thick as mine! Could someone please explain in small words what's > > wrong with an suid mount helper? > > Nothing per-se. What makes it bad is the contect of a userland filesystem > where the actual filesystem operations in the mounted filesystem happen > in contect of a non-privilegued user.
That's one of the major points of FUSE, isn't it? So that unprivileged users can do interesting things.
Or are you saying that that's a desirable objective, but it should be implemented differently?
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