[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps

[- Tethys]

On 10/17/07, Tom Weissmann <trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't see why this has to be necessary. The user provides the auth
> details for the shares he wants to access. The automounter uses them to
> try and mount the share. End of story.
>
> The thing that would require care is stopping other users piggybacking
> on the first user's permissions.

At first glance, the concept of per-user mounts would appear to solve
that problem. However, that's been shot down in flames (legitimately,
I might add) by Al Viro et al. I'm still not 100% convinced that
private mounts can't be made to work, but I do agree that the proposed
implentations we've seen so far are flawed.

Of course, the whole concept is only necessary if access permission is
granted at mount time, rather than at file access time, which really
makes more sense. Then you don't *have* to worry about other users
piggybacking...

Tet

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