Re: autofs vs. Sun automount -- new fs proposal
Stefan Monnier (monnier+misc/news@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:37:16 -0500
pjb1008@cam.ac.uk (Peter Benie) wrote:
> I don't actually see the point of implementing a read-only loopback
> mount. There are already protection mechanisms in the kernel to
> prevent one user from writing to another user's files. If you need to
> run a program so that it cannot write to any files, just run the
> program under a different uid.
Following the same reasoning: why allow things like `chmod u-w' since
the user can change it back anyway !
And if you have the root password to a machine, why would you bother
to log in as some other user ?
Stefan
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