Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 9/9] unprivileged mounts: add "no submounts" flag | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:41:10 +0100 |
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> Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu): > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > > > > Add a new mount flag "nomnt", which denies submounts for the owner. > > This would be useful, if we want to support traditional /etc/fstab > > based user mounts. > > > > In this case mount(8) would still have to be suid-root, to check the > > mountpoint against the user/users flag in /etc/fstab, but /etc/mtab > > would no longer be mandatory for storing the actual owner of the > > mount. > > Ah, I see, so the floppy drive could be mounted as a MNT_NOMNT but > MNT_USER mount with mnt_owner set. Makes sense. I'd ask for a better > name than 'nomnt', but I can't think of one myself.
Me neither.
Thanks for the review, Serge!
Miklos
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