Mainline Linux Kernel Almost Ready For Finally Supporting Unprivileged FUSE Mounts

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mainline Linux Kernel Almost Ready For Finally Supporting Unprivileged FUSE Mounts

While the Linux 4.17 merge window officially closed yesterday with the release of Linux 4.17-rc1, FUSE maintainer Miklos Szeredi is now trying to get his changes added...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ed-FUSE-Almost

[elvenbone]

Hopefully that "really simple step" follows soon, then.
I'm wondering what the security implications of unprivileged fuse mounts are. Neverless, it would make many things much easier.