Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:47:33 -0500 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag |
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Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu): > > Given the existence of shared subtrees allowing/denying this at the mount > > namespace level is silly and wrong. > > > > If we need more than just the filesystem permission checks can we > > make it a mount flag settable with mount and remount that allows > > non-privileged users the ability to create mount points under it > > in directories they have full read/write access to. > > OK, that makes sense. > > > I don't like the use of clone flags for this purpose but in this > > case the shared subtress are a much more fundamental reasons for not > > doing this at the namespace level. > > I'll drop the clone flag, and add a mount flag instead. > > Thanks, > Miklos
Makes sense, so then on login pam has to spawn a new user namespace and construct a root fs with no shared subtrees and with the user-mounts-allowed flag specified?
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