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Shared subtrees

Posted Nov 26, 2005 6:14 UTC (Sat) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)
In reply to: Shared subtrees by nix
Parent article: Shared subtrees

DEC Ultrix did allow users to do NFS mounts onto directories that they
owned. Whether this is a bug or a feature is left as an exercise for the
reader.

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Shared subtrees

Posted Jan 4, 2006 4:23 UTC (Wed) by abartlet (✭ supporter ✭, #3928) [Link]

Closer to home, this is also the behaviour of smbmount, when the helper binary (smbmnt) is setuid.