Re: VFS integration with kernel mounts

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

I'm usually a lurker here, just chiming in on this:

On Qui, 2007-05-03 at 16:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> But the user can't mount a kernel mount. Only root can do that. In fact,
> this is one of the primary reasons we're creating a user space vfs. So
> that any user can create a cifs mount on any platform without being
> root.

Yes only root can do kernel level mounts. But isn't the whole point of
HAL and the future PolicyKit to allow user apps to make these kind of
requests and have them checked againt some kind o policy ACL?

Rui

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