On Apr 25 2007 11:21, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Why did we want to use fsuid, exactly? > >- Because ruid is completely the wrong thing we want mounts owned > by whomever's permissions we are using to perform the mount.
Think nfs. I access some nfs file as an unprivileged user. knfsd, by nature, would run as euid=0, uid=0, but it needs fsuid=jengelh for most permission logic to work as expected. Jan -- _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
