Re: [patch 7/9] unprivileged mounts: allow unprivileged fuse mounts

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 16:59:23 EST


On Tue 2008-01-08 12:35:09, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> Use FS_SAFE for "fuse" fs type, but not for "fuseblk".
>
> FUSE was designed from the beginning to be safe for unprivileged users. This
> has also been verified in practice over many years. In addition unprivileged

Eh? So 'kill -9 no longer works' and 'suspend no longer works' is not
considered important enough to even mention?

'updatedb no longer works' is not a problem?

Are you ready to offer shell account for bugtraq people to see how
long it survives?
Pavel
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