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SubjectRe: [PATCH V9 2/4] fuse: Trace daemon creds
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On 9/30/2020 2:45 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:13 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> wrote:
>> Add a reference to the FUSE daemon credentials, so that they can be used to
>> temporarily raise the user credentials when accessing lower file system
>> files in passthrough.
> Hmm, I think it would be better to store the creds of the ioctl()
> caller together with the open file. The mounter may deliberately
> have different privileges from the process doing the actual I/O.
>
> Thanks,
> Miklos


In my usecase I'm changing euid/egid of the thread to whichever the
uid/gid was passed to the server which is otherwise running as root.

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