Yes. and No. and Yes. [LWN.net]

Yes. and No. and Yes.

Posted Jan 18, 2008 8:59 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Yes. and No. and Yes. by nix
Parent article: State of the unionfs

I thought that the point of fakeroot was that it let you do arbitrary (virtual) chown/chmod's
on files you had just created, not that it let you scribble randomly on the existing
filesystem.

I guess you could have, like, a FUSE filesystem that allowed anyone to do arbitrary
chown/chmod, but could only be mounted nodev nosuid.  That might be safe and effective.  Or
something with containers?

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