Subject: Re: does vfs.generic.usermount work with mount_union?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 08/01/2007 11:52:09
On Wed Aug 01 2007 at 09:19:26 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:34:25PM -0400, Oliver Gould wrote:
> > I think that the mount_union(8) manual needs some better explanation of
> > this.  Currently it says:
> > 
> > 	To enforce filesystem security, the user mounting the filesystem
> > 	must be superuser or else have write permission on the
> > 	mounted-on directory.  In addition, the vfs.generic.usermount
> > 	sysctl(3) variable must be set to 1 to permit file system
> > 	mounting by ordinary users.
> 
> I agree. But note that this is not union specific, so we should probably
> annotate all references to vfs.generic.usermount.

I ripped it from mount_union.8 and fixed mount.8 to make that statement.

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