Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:08:45AM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:56:03AM +0200, Tonnerre wrote:
> > 
> > $ cat fs_header owner_root flags_with_suid evil_program > evil.iso
> > $ ls -l evil.iso/evil_program
> 
> It should of course be equivalent to a user mount: nodev nosuid etc.

hmm, sounds reasonable, but what if root accesses it?
(or somebody with the 'right' capability)

 - it might be strange if even root is not able to
   open device nodes or execute files from an archive

 - it might lead to interesting situations if the
   archive is opened by root, but accessed by an user
   (thinking of caches and such)
  
best,
Herbert

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