[fuse-devel] Fuse mounting for an alternate user

[Orac <mj...@ab...>]

Hi Miklos.

This is a feature which I implemented into fuse a while ago, but which
occurs to me might be useful to put up for discussion/inclusion here.
Basically, what I implemented was a service-style mount, where a service
user-id creates and owns the mount and the mount-point and is therefore also
the only one who can unmount it.  However data access rights are set at
creation to an alternate user-id.  This allows the security of the
single-user access that fuse gives whilst separating the mount owner from
the mount user.  It's a fairly simple addition, but I found it very useful
in not compromising the security of a system whilst allowing the services to
build mounts for users.  If the idea interests you, I can post here the
small amount of code I used to implement this.

Matthew.