Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:44:01 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits) |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The same can be true for tarfs. I mount it for my purpose, others can > mount it for theirs. Since the daemon providing the filesystem asways > runs with the same capabilities as the user who did the mount, I and > others will always get the permissions that we have on the actual tar > file.
Fair enough.
> Think of the "no permission for others" as "hiding", not as some > special permission rule. And if this hiding can be nicely done with > namespaces, all the better, I'll happily drop this feature at that > instant.
Indeed, if it can be done with namespaces _and_ mounting on a file (that file-as-directory concept), _and_ automounting, then you could cd into your tgz files and others could too :)
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