YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> yes. these are the current semantics. a different model may strictly
>> deny mounts for non-root users, or just deny them altogether if they
>> don't contain nodev/nosuid. (it would always check "only allow non-root
>> mounts if dovfsusermount==1 and no privileged options were requested".)
>>
>> the problem here is that the semantics are just ugly. we could approach
>> it differently: before we respect suid/dev (in kern_exec.c and
>> spec_vnops.c - is that enough?) we could issue a KAUTH_SYSTEM_MOUNT_PRIV
>> with the desired option. then the mount would not say it's nodev/nosuid,
>> but would still ignore them.
> 
> do you mean to keep mount-time credential somewhere,
> for later KAUTH_SYSTEM_MOUNT_PRIV?

yeah. we'll have to keep the kauth_cred_t of the mounter in struct
mount (note: this will have to be a copy, not a reference), then we
could use these credentials in requests to whether respect or not
suid bit, devices, etc.

I think it's ugly. :)

-e.