Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
That's one of the major points of FUSE, isn't it? So that unprivileged
users can do interesting things.
Or are you saying that that's a desirable objective, but it should be
implemented differently?
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