Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > It would also be nice to generalise and have virtual filesystems which
> > are able to present different views to different users.  Can FUSE do
> > that already - is the userspace part told which user is doing each
> > operation?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > With that, the desire for virtual filesystems which cannot be read
> > by your sysadmin (by accident) is easy to satisfy - and that kind of
> > mechanism would probably be acceptable to all.
> 
> The problem is that this way the responsibility goes to the userspace
> program, which can't be trusted.

That does not make sense.

Are you saying you cannot trust your own sshfs userspace daemon?

-- Jamie
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