Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:55:51 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options |
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Cautious admins may want to restrict access to debugfs. Currently a > manual chown/chmod e.g. in an init script is needed to achieve that. > Distributions that want to make the mount options configurable need > to add extra config files. By allowing to set the root inode's uid, > gid and mode via mount options no such hacks are needed anymore. > Instead configuration becomes straight forward via fstab. > > Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
I've applied this now, but shouldn't it also be documented somewhere as well? Please send a follow-on patch doing that.
thanks,
greg k-h
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