On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:22:57PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > 1) Only allow mount over a directory for which the user has write
> > access (and is not sticky)
>
> Seems good - but why not sticky? Mounting a user filesystem in
> /tmp/user-xxx/my-mount-point seems not unreasonable - provided the
> administrator can delete the directory (which is possible with
> detachable mount points).
Because then they could mount over /tmp. "and (is not sticky || is
owned by the user)" may be more appropriate.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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