From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Cc: 37569-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37569: Mount does not honor 'user' option.
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:46:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7aedotm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k19lt2r9.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (Diego Nicola Barbato's message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:59:22 +0200")
Hi,
Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
> I've tried adding "mount" and "umount" to `setuid-programs' in my
> operating-system config:
>
> (setuid-programs (cons*
> #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/mount")
> #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/umount")
> %setuid-programs))
>
> Mounting as an unprivileged user now works as expected (even the fancy
> 9p stuff).
Cool!
> Is there any rationale for not adding "mount" and "umount" to
> `%setuid-programs' by default?
No, especially since they perform the right checks and error out with
“only root can do that” when needed.
I added them in commit 19944227528502e3619a6d1557bc735224f6fef6.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-06 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-01 13:41 bug#37569: Mount does not honor 'user' option Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-10-01 19:27 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-10-01 21:43 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-10-04 6:59 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-10-06 12:46 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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