[patch 1/9] unprivileged mounts: add user mounts to the kernel

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Tue Jan 8 13:47:22 PST 2008


On Tue 2008-01-08 12:35:03, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at suse.cz>
> 
> This patchset adds support for keeping mount ownership information in the
> kernel, and allow unprivileged mount(2) and umount(2) in certain cases.
> 
> The mount owner has the following privileges:
> 
>   - unmount the owned mount
>   - create a submount under the owned mount

- create traps for updatedb, etc?

Is there Doc* file somewhere describing dangers of allowing this?
							Pavel
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