Re: [PATCH] cifs: send real uid of initiating process to upcall instead of mount uid

Steve French <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> be able to trick the kernel into using a credcache to which the user
doesn't
> have access by setting the right uid= option on a mount?
...
>  Seems saner and more secure to me.

Are you saying "saner" to rename "uid=" for the purposes of the upcall...
not
just the change to pass the "uid of the process that initiated the upcall"
(not
the "owner of the files" uid) (If so, I agree)


-- 
Thanks,

Steve

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