Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:42:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: marcs@draenor.org (Marc Silver), tyler@wapvi.bc.ca (Tyler Spivey), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User-mounting floppies (was Re: stupid questions) Message-ID: <200006051242.HAA03938@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <20000605145430.A1865@physics.iisc.ernet.in> from Rahul Siddharthan at "Jun 5, 2000 02:54:31 pm"
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Rahul Siddharthan babbled: > Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:54:31 +0530 > To: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org> > Marc Silver said on Jun 5, 2000 at 07:59:47: > > I still believe that for security reasons, only root should be allowed > > to add/remove file systems. You're opening yourself to a world of hurt > > if you take this approach (imho). > > > > It all depends on how much access you want to give your users, > > how much you trust them, and how you weigh security Vs. ease of use for > > users. > > Well, mounting floppies is likely to be an issue at all only on > desktop systems. Quite likely the user *is* the administrator, and > just doesn't want to become root more often than necessary. So I don't > see much harm in telling people how to do this.... especially since I > couldn't find vfs.usermount in the sysctl man pages either. As an example, this here machine is my home machine. The users consist of my wife, my son, and myself. It would be nice if each of us could mount floppies so that I don't have to be called in here to do it as root. At the moment, for this function: advantage - Microsoft. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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