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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:46:08 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, kato@migmatite.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/5575: mount_msdos won't run setuid-root
Message-ID:  <199801281546.CAA11625@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>  3) The vfs.usermount sysctl.  Since access control is mostly broken,
>>     vfs.usermount defaults to 1 so that access control almost reverts
>>     to the pre-Lite2 model.
>
>The vfs.usermount sysctl can be, of course, changed from userland.
>So, new rc.conf argument like:
>
>	enable_usermount
>
>and proper code in /etc/rc are usefull.
>
>How about this?

No, vfs.usermount should go away as soon as the access control is fixed.

Do you think access control is required for union mounts, etc.?  I
guess it is until unionfs, etc. are robust.

Bruce



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