Subject: Re: bug#37569: Mount does not honor 'user' option.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:46:13 +0200

Hi,

Diego Nicola Barbato <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I've tried adding "mount" and "umount" to `setuid-programs' in my
> operating-system config:
>
> (setuid-programs (cons*                                       
>                   #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/mount") 
>                   #~(string-append #$util-linux "/bin/umount")
>                   %setuid-programs))
>
> Mounting as an unprivileged user now works as expected (even the fancy
> 9p stuff).

Cool!

> Is there any rationale for not adding "mount" and "umount" to
> `%setuid-programs' by default?

No, especially since they perform the right checks and error out with
“only root can do that” when needed.

I added them in commit 19944227528502e3619a6d1557bc735224f6fef6.

Thanks!

Ludo’.