Re: What are the uid=0 and gid=0 doing?

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:28:17 +0200
Stef Bon <stefbon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a construction to offer the user easy access to all
> kinds of resources, local like USB sticks, CDroms and harddrives,
> 
> Two major apps make that possible, fuse-workspace-ll, a fuse fs to
> create userfriendly paths to the resource, and redirect the
> user/process to the share mounted by the automounter.
> 
> Look for more information on:
> 
> http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/mount.md5key.new/
> 
> Now looking at how a shar is mounted, I see the following:
> 
> //SCLFS20091030/sbon
> /mnt/mount.md5key/sbon/mount/601d329b6fd5c9d801e620ed7ac41606 cifs
> rw,mand,relatime,unc=\\SCLFS20091030\sbon,username=sbon,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.0.2,posixpaths,setuids,serverino,acl,rsize=16384,wsize=57344
> 0 0
> 
> username=sbon, of course because of the use of a credentials file. But
> why are the uid and the gid not set to this value?
> 

The real uid/gid of the user doing the mounting is 0. You can of
course override those values with whatever you wish if you're root.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx>
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