Re: [RFC] fuse: Support posix ACLs

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On Jun 29 2016, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric and I are working towards adding support for fuse mounts in
> non-init user namespaces. Towards that end we'd like to add ACL support
> to fuse as this will allow for a cleaner implementation overall. Below
> is an initial patch to support this. I'd like to get some general
> feedback on this patch and ask a couple of specific questions.
>
> There are some indications that fuse supports ACLs on the userspace side
> when default_permissions is not used (though I'm not seeing how that
> works). Will these changes conflict with that support, and if how do we
> avoid those conflicts?
>
I think as long as the kernel interprets ACLs only if default_permission
is used, you should be fine.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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