From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262868AbVFVJWB (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:22:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262944AbVFVJRD (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:17:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:60126 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262930AbVFVJNT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:13:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:12:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (fuse) Message-Id: <20050622021251.5137179f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621142820.GC2015@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050621220619.GC2815@elf.ucw.cz> <20050621233914.69a5c85e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050622004902.796fa977.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Can we enhance private namespaces so they can squash setuid/setgid? If so, > > is that adequate? > > We could. But that would again be overly restrictive. The goal is to > make the use of FUSE filesystems for users as simple as possible. If > the user has to manage multiple namespaces, each with it's own > restrictions, it's becoming a very un-user-friendly environment. I'd have thought that it would be possible to offer the same user interface as you currently have with private namespaces. Hide any complexity in the userspace tools? Where's the problem?