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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader - now: User mode filesystems in linux
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 02:22:22 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
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Someone at the 9bof claimed that at least one of the BSDs already
permits users to mount things on any directory for which they have
write permission.  I suspect that the policy actually needs to be a
little stricter than that; you don't want people mounting
(system-wide) on /tmp.  Perhaps any directory that you own would make
more sense.  But we also heard that the maintainers of at least one of
the other BSDs or Linux have a religious aversion to users mounting
anything.  Certainly one would want to think through the interactions
of set-id and user mounts.