Re: [patch 0/8] mount ownership and unprivileged mount syscall (v4)

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> The following extra security measures are taken for unprivileged
> mounts:
> 
>  - usermounts are limited by a sysctl tunable
>  - force "nosuid,nodev" mount options on the created mount

 The original userspace "user=" solution also implies the "noexec"
 option by default (you can override the default by "exec" option).
 
 It means the kernel based solution is not fully compatible ;-(

    Karel

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