On Apr 25 2007 11:21, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Why did we want to use fsuid, exactly? > >- Because ruid is completely the wrong thing we want mounts owned > by whomever's permissions we are using to perform the mount.
Think nfs. I access some nfs file as an unprivileged user. knfsd, by nature, would run as euid=0, uid=0, but it needs fsuid=jengelh for most permission logic to work as expected. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
