On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Dale R. Worley <worley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This isn't really true any more. Can we get rid of those checks or at >> least have an option to turn them off? > > My understanding is that whether the user has to be root when running > mount depends on the "user" and "users" options in fstab. I assume > that "those checks" haven't changed recently because the required > behavior hasn't changed recently. Blech. I forgot that mount is setuid root. What if mount determined that the requested option wasn't allowed by fstab and instead fell back to dropping privileges and trying anyway? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
