On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:32:11AM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Unfortunately, in situations where nbd-server processes are running with a
> privileged group id and a full set of supplementary groups, these
> processes usually would have write access to many more files than one
> would like to allow them.

I agree that this can be a problem in some cases, but it can also be a
feature.

> > Additionally, this changes current behaviour, which I think is even
> > worse than bad defaults.
> > 
> > So I'm going to NAK this, I'm afraid.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to introduce the same "setgroups" option with the
> same semantics but not enabled by default?

I suppose, yes. I'm still not convinced of its usefulness, but if it
doesn't change current behaviour (and thereby can't surprise users) it's
not a real problem.

It won't be part of 3.2 anymore, though, since I've just released that.
I suppose I should've given you a chance to respond first; sorry 'bout
that.

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