mounting filesytem for homedir
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 23 15:57:15 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 15:50 +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > You can make it slightly more restrictive by using the 'owner' or
> > 'group' options, but that means matching the owner (resp. group) of the
> > special file to the user.
>
> Nice, I didn't know that :-)
>
> Of course it would be more logical for the "user" option if standard
> permission checking was done on the special device i.e. if user has read
> rights on the special, it can mount the filesystem (ro) and if it has
> write permission on it, it can mount the filesystem (rw). If the user
> owns the special device, he/she can already screw up the corresponding
> filesystem anyway imho. This way you could enforce a read-only mount.
Yes, that would be good (actually it may already work that way, I've
never tried the 'owner' or 'group' options).
poc
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