On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:00:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Not as thick as mine! Could someone please explain in small words what's > wrong with an suid mount helper? Nothing per-se. What makes it bad is the contect of a userland filesystem where the actual filesystem operations in the mounted filesystem happen in contect of a non-privilegued user. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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