On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:06:48AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >Much like NFS, at times Unionfs has to perform operations as another > user. > >... > >If the foo is owned by someone else and we don't have write permission to > >it, we'll fail to remove the opaque whiteout from foo (.wh.__dir_opaque), > >which would in turn prevent us from removing foo itself. If we become a > >superuser temporarily, we can remove the whiteout as well as the > directory, > >and all is well. > > What you're describing is not a need to perform operations as another > user, but a need to perform them with DAC_OVERRIDE capability. Thanks! I'll look into it. Josef "Jeff" Sipek. -- Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20-46.9.legacysmp on an i686 machine (2785.28 BogoMips). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
