On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:12:04PM -0700, gary ng wrote: > Forgive me ignorance. Would the same situation happens > in say SMB/CIFS ? To the server, the authentication > would still be whoever mount it from the client side.
> I don't think this is a bug(if it is at all) worth RC status. SMB/CIFS mounts honor the uid, gid, fmask, dmask mount options which restrict who is allowed to access files/directories under the mountpoint. Having support for not exposing the entire mount point to access by arbitrary users on the system really is a rather basic requirement, and davfs is the only filesystem type I've heard of which doesn't support this correctly in one form or another. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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