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Message-ID: <20090724231658.GM27755@shareable.org> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:16:58 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org> To: John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] implement uid mount option for ext2 John Stoffel wrote: > I didn't read the original email closely, but I have to say that both > of these plans don't sound good to me. If you can mount a filesystem, > you're root already, so you can do any fixup you need. What if someone lends you a 1TB disk, for you to browse it in your favourite GUI or Shell Window to read some files from it? And you're to put a couple of files on it before you give it back? Hotplug scripts run as root to mount it, and you have your GUI / Shell Window which don't run as root to read and write a few of those files. You must not chown anything on the disk, because it isn't your disk. > But in that case, you're screwed anyway and it's going to become > un-manageable. Push this to userspace, not the kernel since it's a > userspace issue when you come right down to it. How do you handle the above scenario in userspace? -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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