[Pvfs2-users] Root squashing

Rob Ross rross at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Sep 11 11:19:51 EDT 2006


Hey,

I'll have a quick discussion with Murali about this today; I think it 
all looks ok to me.

Rob

Murali Vilayannur wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> Sam and I had talked about it a few days ago. RobR had a few reservations
> about the patch and I believe I had addressed most if not all of his
> comments.
> So I guess it is now a question of just applying and/or porting it to
> cvs head if noone else has any other serious objections..(perhaps in the
> next release?)
> thanks,
> Murali
> 
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Number Cruncher wrote:
> 
>> What's the status of the root squashing patch:
>> http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pipermail/pvfs2-developers/2005-December/001694.html
>>
>> It's a major constraint on our use of PVFS2 for commercial projects that
>> every user can read every other users' files just by becoming root on
>> their own machine.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
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