On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 19:38 -0700, Eric wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:10 +0200, Bram Neijt wrote: > > One of the best solutions I can come up with is if the filesystem > > would allow for a switch that would help ignore these permissions as > > part of the filesystem. > > Ignoring file permissions on removable, user-supplied media sounds like > something that ought to be done above the level of individual > filesystems, just like how we ignore device files and suid/sgid files in > certain cases. Maybe this is something that ought to be one level up > from the ext2/3/4 filesystem driver? It would be a nice feature to implement at a higher level. A lot of file systems do something like this. > In any case, this raises interesting questions. If we ignore permissions > on removable media, then anyone logged into your work computer (to which > you do not have root access) will be able to muck about with your files. > Is that something you want? Mount options should override on-media permissions, but those overriding permissions could still deny access to others: mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=137,dmask=027 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
