2011/1/4 Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net>: > On Tue, 04.01.11 01:01, Michael Biebl (mbi...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> >> 2011/1/4 Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net>: >> > On Tue, 04.01.11 00:24, Wulf C. Krueger (philant...@exherbo.org) wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> currently, /dev/pts is mounted without the usual options by systemd. >> > >> > Normally, additional parameters listed in /etc/fstab should be applied >> > on boot with remount-api-vfs.service unit. However, there seems to be a >> > bug right now and this is not done properly. >> >> On Debian and Ubuntu /dev/pts is mounted with >> noexec,nosuid,gid=tty,mode=0620. >> >> In Debian it is done via the mountdevsubfs sysv init script, in Ubuntu >> it is done by mountall. >> On both systems /dev/pts is *not* defined in /etc/fstab. >> >> I guess Wulf's point isn't, that options in /etc/fstab are not applied >> but rather that systemd should mount /dev/pts with those options. > > Hmm, I normally would be happy to do that, but I am a bit concerned > about the gid=tty parameter. Before we pass that off to the kernel we'd > have to look that up and pass a numeric gid on. But doing NSS queries > from PID 1 is a little bit dangerous. Hence I'd actually prefer if > people apply this in /etc/fstab. > > Ideas? Suggestions?
The mountdevsubfs init script does indeed use a numeric value (= 5) for gid as that is guaranteed to be tty on Debian. I just checked a Ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4 system and they all use tty:5. If this is an assumption though that can be safely made accros distros, I dunno. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
