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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:44:14 -0600
From:      "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@acl.lanl.gov>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Filesystem question...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.10.9907260843280.226103-100000@n04.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907250048380.87256-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Mark Newton wrote:
> 
> > Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> >  > But thanks for the note. I just now realized that if I add a private name
> >  > space to v9fs (which is easy), and then turn on user mounts, user
> >  > processes can have private name spaces on freebsd!
> > I can't wait to see the security problems that causes when setuid executables
> > assume that they only need to be worrying about one filesystem namespace.
> > :-) 
> There shouldn't be any problems if mount enabled the flags for nosuid/nodev
> etc. if suser(p) != 0.

Actually, i'd expect far fewer problems for the private mounts than for
user mounts which modify the name space for all processes ...

ron



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