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UID/GID identity and filesystems

UID/GID identity and filesystems

Posted Mar 26, 2015 12:08 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: UID/GID identity and filesystems by josh
Parent article: UID/GID identity and filesystems

Hm, but who really has permission to mount? Only UID=0 || CAP_SYS_ADMIN, no? When I insert a disk into my system, it is mounted on my behalf by udisksd which is running as root.


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