Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: uid of user who mounts | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:35:03 +0200 |
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Steve French wrote: > > Thanks - I had missed that - and it is a little cleaner to call it > "user" than "mount_uid" in the line in /proc/mounts, and there are no > existing parms returned that are similar (except "username" which should > be easy enough to understand). Interestingly I did not see other > filesystems returning that in /proc/mounts (I slightly prefer having it > stored in the filesystems kernel code and returned in showopts not just > put by userspace in the file mtab) - the only minor annoyance is that / > etc/mtab returns the username (rather than the uid).
I support adding 'user=UID' to the /proc/mounts output. Actually I have an older patch which contains this feature. This is slightly big patch which also deals with completely elliminating the need for a suid mount program for some specific filesystems. See:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=108116200509753&w=2
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