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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:00:53 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc security
Message-ID:  <20000919080053.A30684@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200009181835.LAA07285@freefall.freebsd.org>; from brian@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:35:08AM -0700
References:  <200009181835.LAA07285@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:35:08AM -0700, Brian Somers wrote:
> brian       2000/09/18 11:35:08 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  security 
>   Log:
>   Sort the output of mount

I wasn't sure if this was a good idea - now you don't notice if
some careless intruder unmounts a filesystem, makes some changes
and remounts it. Admitidly they could edit mtab and move the entry
but none of our secutiry checks are immune to this sort of tampering.

	David.


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