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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] private mounts
    Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
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    > 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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