Re: Mounting /proc w/ kernel 3.4.0 - "uid" parameter no longer valid?

[Eric W. Biederman]

"D. Stussy" <spam+newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> proc:  unrecognized mount option "uid=1" or missing value
>
> This works under 3.3.6 and earlier (I never tried 3.3.7).  It appears that the
> "uid" mount option was removed.  WHY?  More importantly, where is this change
> listed?  I didn't see it in the git log.
>
> This is really bad as I rebooted a remotely colocated server and since the
> procfs is not mounted, I cannot log in via SSH to correct the problem.
>
> OK, so there's not that much point in changing the UID of the procfs files, but
> I preferred to set their default ownership to a non-privileged user. 

There has never been a uid= option to /proc in Linus's tree.  I believe
if you look you will find this feature was from a patch (perhaps from
your distro) that added that support.

Eric
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