linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag

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Message-ID: <20070413134732.GB1483@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:47:33 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, serue@...ibm.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 05/10] add "permit user mounts in new namespace" clone flag

Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@...redi.hu):
> > Given the existence of shared subtrees allowing/denying this at the mount
> > namespace level is silly and wrong.
> > 
> > If we need more than just the filesystem permission checks can we
> > make it a mount flag settable with mount and remount that allows
> > non-privileged users the ability to create mount points under it
> > in directories they have full read/write access to.
> 
> OK, that makes sense.
> 
> > I don't like the use of clone flags for this purpose but in this
> > case the shared subtress are a much more fundamental reasons for not
> > doing this at the namespace level.
> 
> I'll drop the clone flag, and add a mount flag instead.
> 
> Thanks,
> Miklos

Makes sense, so then on login pam has to spawn a new user namespace and
construct a root fs with no shared subtrees and with the
user-mounts-allowed flag specified?

-serge
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