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List:       systemd-devel
Subject:    Re: [systemd-devel] Mount a remote FS as a user
From:       Lennart Poettering <lennart () poettering ! net>
Date:       2019-02-13 16:05:14
Message-ID: 20190213160513.GC23895 () gardel-login
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On Di, 12.02.19 11:57, Daniel Tihelka (dtihelka@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
> OK, thanks for the clarification.
>
> I was afraid that the situation is like you have described. Still it
> surprises me that even the sshfs case cannot be handled by user
> instance of systemd ...

it should work if you only use .mount but not .automount.

> Do you have any information that the kernel is going to open autofs
> for unpriv clients?

No. To my knowledge nobody is working on that.

> Or, could it be a way to write a d-bus capable daemon (or use/extend
> udisks or systemd capabilities?) which would handle the mounts for a
> particular user, i.e. a user would provide remote host+fs
> type+username+passwd+required mount point+access permissions and the
> daemon would mount it then for the user as required. Or has this way a
> security flow I don't see?

I think the energy adding that would be better spent on fixing the
kernel's autofs logic to be available unpriv...

Lennart

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