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FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

Posted Jan 29, 2004 14:00 UTC (Thu) by mszeredi (subscriber, #19041)
In reply to: FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space by mjr
Parent article: FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

Security is one of the main design principles of FUSE. The only operation that requires root access is the mounting, and that can be done fairly securely by a non-root user with the help of a suid program (fusermount).


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