Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:30:01 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] private mounts |
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Hello!
> - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from > other users' and the super user's processes [...] > 3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied > all access to the filesystem
This smells. Denying access to root doesn't make any sense. I agree that it could help in some corner cases (like avoiding automated backup from backing up user filesystems), but in the end it's going to be an annoyance.
Per-user namespaces (set up by PAM) look as a very reasonable solution.
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