[K12OSN] FUSE group on LTSP 4.2

[Eric Harrison]

David Trask wrote:
> Ok....just wondering....I heard a lot of talk at LinuxWorld and here on
> the list about making sure the user is a member of the "fuse" group in
> order to use the new local device feature.  My question....can we somehow
> make it so that all users are members of the fuse group?  (now I need to
> figure out how to script it for Samba/LDAP)....Matt?  :-)
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Director
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> (207)923-3100
> 


A bit less secure*, but much less work is to set the SUID bit on the
fusermount command:

	chmod 4755 /usr/bin/fusermount

-Eric


* this allows everything, rather than everybody, to make fuse mounts.
That opens the potential for attacks via php/cgi scripts, etc