Bug#481610: RFP: bindfs -- Mirror or overlay a local directory with altered permissions

[Martin P?el <martin.partel@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : bindfs
  Version         : 1.6.1
  Upstream Author : Martin Pärtel <martin.partel@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Mirror or overlay a local directory with altered permissions

bindfs is a FUSE filesystem for mirroring a directory to another
directory, similarly to mount --bind. The permissions of the mirrored
directory can be altered in various ways.

Some things bindfs can be used for:
- Making a directory read-only.
- Making all executables non-executable.
- Sharing a directory with a list of users (or groups).
- Modifying permission bits using rules with chmod-like syntax.
- Changing the permissions with which files are created.

Non-root users can use almost all features, but most interesting 
use-cases need user_allow_other to be defined in /etc/fuse.conf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.16 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash