Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:04:57 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new GEOM feature - geom_vol_msdosfs Message-ID: <xzp7jvtpvh2.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <55894.1083575066@critter.freebsd.dk> (Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Mon, 03 May 2004 11:04:26 %2B0200") References: <55894.1083575066@critter.freebsd.dk>
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > On the other hand, name collisions are already passively neutered > in DEVFS, so if we can live with "Don't do that then" handling of > it, then there is no reason to not have them as different GEOM > classes, which certainly makes for simpler and cleaner code. so I see a box that has /dev/vol/var mounted on /var, format a USB stick and label it as var, stick it in and press reset. the stick happens to contain a file, cron/tabs/root, which looks like this: @reboot /bin/sh -c 'echo | /sbin/pw usermod root -h 0' boom, instant root privs. ok, so it requires physical access, but still... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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