Comment 51 for bug 225361

Phillip Susi <email address hidden> writes:
> [ Should root be able to access everything? ]

BUGabundu is right, this discussion probably belongs somewhere else.

So let my just state my main point again: using --allow-root does not
have any negative side effects and would prevent many applications
from needing fixing.

> I believe the gvfs uses the kernel keyring for authentication to
> remote network resources and such, ergo simply being root can not
> grant you access.

gvfs does not need to be root in order for --allow-root to work. So
this shouldn't be a problem.

>> Changing the behavior to allowing root to stat() the directly (but not
>> granting read- or execute permissions) would probably also fix most of
>> the issues.
>
> Hrm.... it does seem like you should be able to stat the mount point
> itself. How would this solve the problem though? find often
> complains that it can't stat() temporary files that have been
> unlinked between the readdir() call and the stat(). Any calling
> script should not be upset by such errors.

Yes, but here the situation is different: readdir() returns an entry
that cannot be stat()ed. In the above case, we simply have a race
condition between stat() and readdir(). But this does not belong here
either, so I will try to get this change into FUSE.

Best,

   -Nikolaus

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