Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:54:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unionfs Message-ID: <199605202154.OAA28636@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605201527.BAA26678@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 21, 96 01:27:21 am
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> >I think that this may be another service which doesn't want to be > >available as an LKM. (IPFW is another, but for rather different > >reasons.) When the new code is integrated, mount_union will not be > >able to modload the unionfs module unless it is run by root, which > >rather defeats the purpose of allowing ordinary users to mount > >unionfs:es in the first place. > > It should be possible for anyone to ask a trusted server to load > trusted LKMs. However, LKMs can't be loaded if securelevel > 0, > so it is best not to depend on loading them on demand. Kernel-based demand loading will (potentially) kill this. I don't understand the need to allow ordinary users to do mounts; FS hierarchy geometry is pretty system-critical, IMO. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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