From owner-cvs-all  Tue Sep 19  0: 0:59 2000
Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org
Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP
	id 42EFC37B422; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP
          id <aa42606@salmon>; 19 Sep 2000 08:00:53 +0100 (BST)
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>
References: <200009181835.LAA07285@freefall.freebsd.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <200009181835.LAA07285@freefall.freebsd.org>; from brian@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:35:08AM -0700
Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message