On Feb 3, 2008 12:46 PM, Amit Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Allowing root access to something like a drive's contents can't seriously be
> > too risky when root has access to everything else?
>
> Programs running as root that happen to
> be accessing such a file system will be adversely affected. In
> particular, a user-space file system can make *other programs* hang.
> Some of these programs running as root could be system components, so
> your entire system may hang or misbehave. That is a fundamental
> security issue and that's why it is "too risky"--not because of the
> reasons I think you're imagining.

What is driving the OP's need for root access to a FUSE filesystem?

Is it possible to do something with FUSE similar to what NFS does with
'root'--translation to a different UID?

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