Thanks to everyone for the comments on the previous submission. Christoph, could you please look through the patches if they are acceptable from the VFS point of view? Thanks, Miklos v6 -> v7: - add '/proc/sys/fs/types/<type>/usermount_safe' tunable (new patch) - do not make FUSE safe by default, describe possible problems associated with unprivileged FUSE mounts in patch header - return EMFILE instead of EPERM, if maximum user mount count is exceeded - rename option 'nomnt' -> 'nosubmnt' - clean up error propagation in dup_mnt_ns - update util-linux-ng patch v5 -> v6: - update to latest -mm - preliminary util-linux-ng support (will post right after this series) v4 -> v5: - fold back Andrew's changes - fold back my update patch: o use fsuid instead of ruid o allow forced unpriv. unmounts for "safe" filesystems o allow mounting over special files, but not over symlinks o set nosuid and nodev based on lack of specific capability - patch header updates - new patch: on propagation inherit owner from parent - new patch: add "no submounts" mount flag v3 -> v4: - simplify interface as much as possible, now only a single option ("user=UID") is used to control everything - no longer allow/deny mounting based on file/directory permissions, that approach does not always make sense v1 -> v3: - add mount flags to set/clear mnt_flags individually - add "usermnt" mount flag. If it is set, then allow unprivileged submounts under this mount - make max number of user mounts default to 1024, since now the usermnt flag will prevent user mounts by default -- - 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