On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 03:16:20PM -0400, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote: > On 9/30/2020 2:45 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 3:13 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Add a reference to the FUSE daemon credentials, so that they can be used to > > > temporarily raise the user credentials when accessing lower file system > > > files in passthrough. > > Hmm, I think it would be better to store the creds of the ioctl() > > caller together with the open file. The mounter may deliberately > > have different privileges from the process doing the actual I/O. > > > > Thanks, > > Miklos > > > In my usecase I'm changing euid/egid of the thread to whichever the uid/gid > was passed to the server which is otherwise running as root. > Ack, in the next patch set I will store the creds of the ioctl() caller. Thanks, Alessio
