Date: 05 Jun 2000 09:32:00 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User-mounting floppies (was Re: stupid questions) Message-ID: <44r9acp833.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: Jerry Dunham's message of "Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:42:10 -0500 (CDT)" References: <200006051242.HAA03938@freeside.fc.net>
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Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> writes: > 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. If you like the Microsoft model, you'd probably be happier with mtools anyway, which do things just that way. And they finesse the security issue by not actually mounting the floppy as a filesystem in the first place. Incidentally, I think this *is* an appropriate model for the way *I* use floppies, and I suspect I'm not alone in that. I use floppies for a few different things, mostly either backups of critical files or sneakernet. The key feature here is that a file will be read or written while the disk is in a given machine, but almost never both, and much more often written than read. Having the floppy in the machine's filesystem tree wouldn't be an advantage under these conditions, while there are a number of advantages (in addition to avoiding the security issues, there's the fact that you can safely pull the disk out at any time) to not having the device mounted. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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